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Using server side includes in html with IIS

Posted last year, at the start of April by Dave.
Categories: IIS 5.x +, Servers, Windows.
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To set Windows Internet Information Services (IIS) to process server side includes (sHTML) in normal html pages is very easy.

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Google Desktop XML back door!

Posted last year, mid-March by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, IIS 5.x +, Internet, Search, Servers, Platforms, Windows, Google.
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Did you know that Google Desktop contains a back door? Would you believe me if I said it was XML? Well next time you do a search on Google Desktop, add the following to the end of the results URL “&format=xml” and you will see your results in XML format.
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Grabbing IP Address through GIFs

Posted 2 years ago, at the end of August by Dave.
Categories: Web Developement, IIS 5.x +.
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While logged in MySpace.com I was looking at the hits that my profile got. And with so many people around the world using MySpace.com, 104,540,148 on the Your Network counter, I wanted to know where I was getting hits from. MySpace doesn’t allow JavaScript, so I set about finding a new way of finding where in the world these hits are coming from without using JavaScript. Would you believe GIFs is how I did it!

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