Save web server bandwidth by fixing IIS ETags
When you request a static file from a web site powered by IIS, IIS will return HTTP headers like the following:HTTP/1.1 200 OKContent-Length: 4835Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8Content-Location:...
View ArticleConfigure IIS to redirect to your preferred URL
The preferred URL for most web sites includes "www." in the beginning of the URL (i.e. http://www.w3.org/). But sites should still work if you go to the URL without the "www." (i.e. http://w3.org/)....
View ArticleMySpace Account Hacking
After this post, I get a lot of questions like:I think my spouse/SO/etc. is cheating on me. How do I hack their MySpace so I can find out what’s going on?Help, someone hacked my MySpace and took over...
View ArticleSetting charsets via IIS MIME types is harmful
Previously, in this post, I recommended that webmasters tweak their IIS MIME type settings so that static HTML files would specify a charset of UTF-8. It turns out that this causes some problems.The...
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