Whenever we run a private server somewhere on the Internet, we need access control. Basic or digest auth was the way to go in the old days, but most of us use some form of cookie based authentication nowadays. That’s fairly easy with server side scripts, but what about static pages or reverse proxies? How can we make the apache server to provide cookie auth?
Google has opened a Pandora’s box by proposing a W3C standard that would allow browsers to unilaterally freeze or even unload web-sites in/from the browser. ….
I developed web services before Larry or Sergey even thought about Google. From back then to now I have morphed from being a web-technology engineer ….
Back in the days, coders didn’t have the convenience of stackoverflow or GitHub. You wanted to do something, you had to “invent” it yourself. We ….