sometimes you may want to lock down RESTful APIs or plain HTTP GET resources for authorised access by your own client software only, without requiring authentication. You don’t know who (not authenticated), but you know she may access (is authorised).
If the server has a valid SSL certificate based on a root certificate pre-installed on the …
after failing and failing again in the last months, I finally got it with the help of http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/137
The .htaccess configuration
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/javascript
requires Apache’s mod_deflate enabled via
$ a2enmod deflate
Module deflate installed; run /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload to enable.
Check the result with http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
Caution: There seems to be an If-Modified-Since/Last-Modified HTTP 304 bug in mod_deflate, …
Weil große Email Anhänge stinken, bietet sich z.B. die Dropbox als Dateiaustauschplatform an.
Einfach die Datei in den (lokalen) Dropbox/Public Ordner verfrachten, syncen lassen und per “Rechte Maustaste -> Copy Public Link” in die Mail kopieren.
Redirect
Nun sind solche Links nicht besonders hübsch (Branding!, Branding!, CI! ruft die Marketingabteilung) und spätestens wenn man’s abtippen muß oder …
For quite some time I ranted about not being able to use compressed network communcation out-of-the-box on the iPhone.
Despite being undocumented (or I just overlooked the hint), NSURLConnection does gzip decompression transparently!
That’s how to use it:
ensure the webserver sends gzipped content, use e.g. wget to verify:
$ wget –header=’Accept-Encoding: gzip’ \
–server-response …