90% CrudSure, 90% of weblogs are crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.Why is Apache sending a "X-Pad" header- March 31, 2008 Apache sometimes sends an HTTP header "X-Pad: avoid browser bug" for reasons that aren't entirely clear. There isn't a lot of searchable information about this header, so my coworker Matt dug into the source code and found out what's going on. The header was added to deal with a bug Netscape versions 2 through 4.0b2. The bug was that Netscape would hang if a linefeed character was sent as the 256 or 257 byte. Apache checks to see if it's about to hit the bug and, if so, sends this header..http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/why_is_apache_sending_a_xpad_header.php Real RSS Spam- March 25, 2008 The spammers keep getting cleverer and cleverer. A blog that will remain nameless let its domain name expire. A black-hat SEO spammer bought up the domain, which is pretty common. What surprised me was what happened next. The spammer must have realized that there was a blog previously at that URL. So they installed a special version of WordPress for SEO spammers (I won't link it here, get in touch if you're really curious) and even published a feed at the exact same URL as the previous RSS.http://george.hotelling.net/90percent/geekery/real_rss_spam.php |