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Today setting up SSL for a Apache HTTP webserver I run into issue, when browser shows that site is not accessible. At first I thought that SSL (443) port is not open, but looking in the Apache log file I saw this: 192.168.98.169 – – [24/May/2010:12:01:45 +0300] “\x16\x03\x01” 200 12332 “-” “-” The place where …
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List of little things that will make your website much faster. Not every webmaster knows, that 1 extra byte in jpg image, can cause 100% speed reduction / penalty for your website visitor. When you learn that MTU for Ethernet is 1500 bytes with actual data / payload size of 1460 bytes, you can calculate …
When using JavaScript window.location in your code, be aware, that window.location is encoded using JavaScript escape function. It is not always obvious because characters, that get encoded / decoded using escape() / unescape() is rare in urls. Use the following syntax to get human readable url: unescape(window.location) URL: http://example.com/test url/ window.location: http://example.com/test%20url/ unescape(window.location): http://example.com/test url/ …
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