Recent content by jm4n

My guess is they are simply using a "web bug". Generally it's nothing more than a single pixel transparent GIF image, called like this: <img src="http://yourdomain/1x1.gif?ID=2425"> Where the ID=2425 is the key, and would somehow be unique to that e-card. When their email client downloads the...

I would definately recommend against this. Anyone can download the applet, and finding the password is very trivial. Most likely, a disassembler won't be necessary, just a hex editor. On top of that, any visitor to any site using the applet can very easily obtain the password by sniffing...

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/ http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/index.html Both of these sites offer some good beginner's PHP tutorials.

Maybe if I get some time, I'll fire up Windows and VC++ and whip up a quick freeware ap with an installer... just a simple SSI parser for Windows...

You are validating both the connect and the select calls (with ||die), which is good. You are not doing this for the mysql_query() call however. Try this: $display_result = mysql_query($display_query); if(!$display_result) die("Error: " . mysql_error()); If the query itself is not...

One of my sites (selling Windows shareware, so all Windows users) shows the following: Mozilla 5.x (Netscape 6 or Mozilla): 1% Mozilla 4.x (Netscape 4.x.x): 3% I concur, there are more Netscape 4 users than there are Mozilla/Netscape 6 users (my stats don't yet separate those two, I may...

What version of Netscape? It works fine in Mozilla (and thus Netscape 6)... I personally wouldn't worry about 4.x, I doubt too many people use it these days. There are better browsers on every platform than Netscape 4.x... Is there a legitimate use for IFrames besides ads? I've never, ever...

Netscape 3.0 Gold runs nicely on 3.1 :) If you're using a slow machine (eg, 386 SX), you do not want to use IE... Of course if you're still using a 386, you probably have far greater issues than what browser to use... ;)

I'm really bored this morning, so what the heck, I'll throw out a couple observations. Personally I use Windows only for gaming. Other than that, my 5 home systems run Linux. But I didn't do this for any of the reasons anyone posted here... I run Win2k in a dual-boot configuration on...

There is a much easier way (when using Apache and PHP) than what they show... assume a URL like this: blah.com/script.php/value1/value2/value3 Rather than doing what they show, simply do this: $vars = explode("/",$PATH_INFO); $PATH_INFO contains the path after the script name, if you...

Hm, only Windows software to choose from? I use ipchains on Linux. Haven't tried iptables yet. Used to use ipfilter on FreeBSD. Never used a Windows firewall before though (I'm not sure I trust Windows for such a job)... Never had a problem where I'd scream out the title of this thread...

Not if the email itself is encrypted (ala PGP). However, if you are using (for example) SSH port forwarding, then yes, the message itself isn't encrypted, just the transmission. Logging access is one thing. Making odd remarks such as the original poster quotes, that would make me uneasy. It's...

And in exchange for the office assistant, you give up auto-complete on email addresses. Seriously though, you can set up macros and such to do filtering, perform actions, and many other things an email client probably doesn't need to do. Did I mention it doesn't do auto-complete? - Jm4n, a...

I don't think you would have any recourse on this; unfortunately, the fact of the matter is, any unencrypted communications on the 'net are subject to being intercepted. Conceivably an ISP or webhost could read your email, track every website you visit, and much more. Any informaiton your...

I'm not saying noone is willing to help you; the suggestions I gave should help you to debug your script. I made some other comments which I'll explain in a minute, but I did offer you as much help as I would offer anyone. My point was simply that if you're going to take up Perl scripting...