Chrome Destroys URLs in the Location Line

WebDevelopment / /

Problem: current Chrome browsers cut URl parts and hide the correct URL. https://www.derstandard.at/ is shown as derstandard.at. This is simply wrong from the technical point of view. And it might even be dangerous for some URLs form a security standpoint. Solution: there is an option to disable this bug:chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-trivial-subdomains Update: oogle ropped his ption. The […]

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APT sources list

CLI, Linux / /

Problem: when debian goes from “testing” to “stable” to “oldstable” the package sources change. eg. jessie-updates are remove, same happened to jessie-backports The current file /etc/apt/sources.list for jessie (currently oldstable) could look like this deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-freedeb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

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Configure WLAN Statically in Debian/Linux

CLI, Linux / /

If you want to configure WLAN settings on a Linux machine statically you can use the normal /etc/network/interfaces configuration method of Debian. For WPA-PSK you can use this 3 steps: Install the “wpasupplicant” package Generate a psk line with “wpa_passphrase” and copy the hex string after “psk=” root@server:~# wpa_passphrase WLANNAME# reading passphrase from stdinthepasswordnetwork={ ssid=”WLANNAME”

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Debugging Akamai

WebDevelopment / /

Akamai just works, … most of the time. But sometimes you have to check what’s going on, and Akamai gives you a handy tool for this. There is an HTTP request header that tells Akamai to respond with some internal information. Pragma: akamai-x-cache-on, akamai-x-cache-remote-on, akamai-x-check-cacheable, akamai-x-get-cache-key, akamai-x-get-ssl-client-session-id, akamai-x-get-true-cache-key, akamai-x-get-request-id With this request header Akamai includes

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FortiGate HA Synchronization Fail

Fortinet / /

Problem: Two FortiGate firewall show “not synchonized” in the HA status. Discussion: the problem with this is, that FortiGate does not show why it fails. I found no log file with a reasonable error message. So I tried to synchronize the config myself, which is exactly what should NOT be necessary when using HA synchronization. Solution: When an

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F5 iRule Class Match Crash

F5, Security / /

Problem: F5 iRules with “class match” crash sometimes with this message: /Common/UA_DETECT – ambiguous option “-“: must be -all, -index, -element, -name, or -value while executing “class match [string tolower [HTTP::header User-Agent]] contains UA_STRINGS” Discussion: the class match command has optional parameters, when the HTTP header User-Agent starts with a “-” it gets intepreted by

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