Having stated the problem and now played further, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that there’s an action hook, ‘set_auth_cookie’, that gets called whenever the cookies are set, so if the stuff for which you want to authenticate is on the same server but at a different path, you can [...]
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Posted 29 July 2008
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I’ve been hoping for the last hour or two that there’d be just one post on this topic, giving the problem and solution all together, but I have yet to solve it and so I’m just going to post the issue for now, until I have a solution. As a security measure in WP2.6, login [...]
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Posted 29 July 2008
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For many years now, I’ve used WorldWideDNS.net for the bulk of my DNS hosting. On Monday, they suffered a massive DDoS attack, taking out pretty much everything and making a few of my domains (including 2718.us) unavailable. Now, personally, I consider this sort of attack and outtage at a service provider to be an inevitability, [...]
I use WordPress as the backbone of a site I run, including using it for user authentication. This means a lot of people who aren’t invovled in running the site are logging in and could see the dashboard. Now, it’s not that there’s anything really secret there, but it makes things look a lot less [...]
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Posted 10 July 2008
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Tagged: dashboard, deepwave, hide, hide dashboard, hide dashboard plugin, integration, plugin, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wp, wp plugin
While I’d been really happy using svnX, it didn’t deal with svn properties at all, which meant having to go to the CLI and set properties manually. This got annoying fast when I kept forgetting the syntax to set svn:keywords so that I would get those nice automatic tags filled in at the top of [...]
I’d gotten very used to editing some of my sites on the live running copy or editing a testbed server, then rsyncing it to the live server. I really had the WinSCP+TextPad thing down, then moved to Transmit+KomodoEdit when I went Mac-only for programming. It wasn’t bad at all, though every once in a while [...]
Most drop-in “is this a valid-form email?” functions do label certain valid email addresses as invalid. In particular, while highly unlikely, it is valid to have an email address at a TLD. Why did this come to mind? Very circuitously. I was watching YouTube videos when I noticed that it was loading stuff from “i.ytimg.com,” [...]
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Posted 01 May 2008
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Tagged: address validation, dns, domain, domain name, email, email address, fqdn, host, hostname, invalid, name server, rfc, rfcs, sld, tld, valid, valid email address
I’m wondering if I’d gain anything from putting a small Google AdSense unit or maybe an AdSense link unit on the LJ-Stat page. And by “gain anything” I mean get a few cents to help pay my hosting bills. It could be relatively unobtrusive… It’s just that, thus far, I’ve avoided putting any ads on [...]
Scribblit => Inksome (but scribblit.com still works… for now? until May 10 [updated based on comment below]) CommieJournal to close May 1 unless they raise the money to cover $169/month hosting bill. (If they cover this month’s bill, will the date just become June 1? I don’t know.)
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Posted 22 April 2008
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I not only wanted to integrate my own other things into my WordPress-based site, but I wanted forums, too, so of course I thought of bbPress. It seems to integrate well with WordPress, but then suddenly strange things started happening with login and logout. For instance, when I logged in with bbPress, I couldn’t get [...]
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Posted 20 April 2008
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Tagged: authentication, bbpress, cookie, cookie domain, cookies, domain, integration, login, user, user authentication, wordpress, wordpress 2.5, wordpress login, wp, wp2.5