One of our weak points usually is the design integration tasks, if you are lucky you can have a very skilled web designer that gives you a cool cross-browser compatible markup that fits perfectly in your application, but most of the times you’re lucky if the HTML works perfectly in the plain html file and almost never the designer will be able t... [Read More]

This is the second part of “Disabling input validation in MVC2 using ASP.NET 4.0”, in the first part we saw how to disable the input validation, to upload, for example, html code.
The problem with that is that we disabled the validation for all fields in the form, so all the other fields (that might not contain html) can be “hacked” with htm... [Read More]

Imagine you need to make a web page in which you can edit HTML and send it back to the server (an html editor), so you place the input and when you submit the form, the famous “A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client” error rises, so you try the old way and you set the input validation to false in the page.
No... [Read More]

There is quite odd behavior with MOSS cache: Imagine you create a site with two areas, one that can be accessed by http and one which must be accessed using https.
So you need to enable https in your site, etc… Alright, so how do you make the users access the secure zone by using https, you do two things:
You link to the secure zon... [Read More]

Sometimes you need to create a custom RSS feed for your site, and the product you’re using (MOSS, Umbraco, a custom development,…) does not provide what you exactly need. So you start thinking about building your own feed.
The first attempt is to build the XML yourself, but you’ll find that it can be a little tricky, but think a while… since... [Read More]

Sometimes you have to install an antivirus on your infrastructure or add virus detecting features to your application, then you have to test if it works… I don’t know you but I usually don’t have a virus available to test if the AV is correctly configured and I don’t want to test the system with a real virus.
So here comes EICAR Test File to... [Read More]

This one took us a couple of hours (stressful hours) to spot. We rebooted a server and the crawler stopped crawling ;)
We have two webapps published in the server, the first one is attending to the machine name, and the second (the faulty one) is attending to an alias in the dns (using a host header like “app.company.int” ). The two applic... [Read More]