Minify JavaScript, CSS and compress images
Optimizing, minify and compressing JavaScript and CSS files, the easy and fast way? With YUI Compressor on the Windows-, Linux- and macOS command line of course! Compacting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can speeds up your website because of smaller and faster downloads, parsing, and execution time.
IIS Outbound Rules with gzip compression
Saotn.org uses used URL Rewrite Outbound Rules in IIS, to offload content from a different server or host name. Doing so, IIS uses URL Rewrite and acts as a reverse proxy. Add gzip compression to the mix, and this will improve website performance. But just recently I noticed Outbound Rules conflicted with gzip compressed content. The following HTTP 500.52 URL Rewrite Module Error was thrown:
prettyPhoto DOM based XSS
prettyPhoto DOM based XSS on Saotn.org... This evening, after tweeting about preventing cross site scripting vulnerabilities, I received a reply from Olivier Beg. His reply to my tweet contained an image, as you can see above. He alerted me that Saotn.org was vulnerable to a DOM based XSS vulnerability, hidden in prettyPhoto used by my WordPress theme. Whoops! So, I had work to do! But, what is prettyPhoto and what exactly is a DOM based XSS?