Sebastian Rittau

Tag: software development

  • Apache, cgi-bins, and the Authorization header

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    I had a problem: Server A runs a web service, which requires users to authenticate using the standard HTTP authentication mechanism. Server B should have web pages that use AJAX to query A’s web services. Server B’s web pages also require authentication, using the same scheme, backend and database as server A. There are two problems:…

  • Loading Modules in JavaScript

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    One of the weaknesses of the JavaScript language is that it does not have the concept of “importing” or “including” other source files or modules. In client-side JavaScript as used in web browsers you have to include all JavaScript files you intend to use in the main HTML file like this: <html> <head> <title>…</title> <script…

  • Standards

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    Mark Pilgrim posted a great article about the problems of many committee standardization processes. Microformats use a different approach: Design for the common case first, think about corner cases only later.

  • I’m back to Debian

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    So, I finally found time to do Debian work again after a far too long abstinence. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to hand over my Debian stuff gracefully, but fortunately there were people having an eye on them. Jonas Smedegaard had an eye on the Netatalk package and released a security fix for it. The GNOME team, headed…