Debugging HTTP traffic using Fiddler

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27 Oct 2009

Microsoft Fiddler is a HTTP debugging proxy that lets you log all HTTP traffic between your computer and the internet. Fiddler lets you to inspect all HTTP traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing HTTP data. To run Fiddler you require a Windows machine with .NET 1.1 framework installed.

Visualizing application structure with nWire

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14 Oct 2009

nWire is a plugin for Eclipse that helps you understand the various components and their relationships in your application. Due to various complex PHP applications being developed - like Magento, Joomla and a wide variety of frameworks, developers finds it hard to understand the underlying architecture and relationships between various components within the application.

Local email testing of applications

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6 Oct 2009

E-mails are a pervasive element of most web applications. But many times testing and debugging emails can become a hassle when many of them are involved. Most of the time you just want to be sure that the email part of your application is working fine, without flooding your mail account with test mails.

Detecting user agents in php

Posted in: browser, pear |   ( 3 ) Comments

3 Oct 2009

Every time you use your browser to access a website a User-Agent header is sent to the respective server.
Detecting user agents on the server can be useful for many reasons.

1. Browsers Quirks – Despite the standardization in browsers, there will remain some quirks in various browsers that you will need to iron out on a regular basis.
2. Personalize Content – It may be required to deliver different type of content depending on the browser type (although it is usually not recommended); whether mobile or otherwise.
3. Illegal Access – Prevent bandwidth hogging bots and poorly programmed clients from downloading your content.

Codediesel gets a new color scheme

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23 Sep 2009

Hello readers! The blog now has been updated with a new color scheme. The new and the previous one are shown below for comparision. Not that everyone will like it as each has his own favorite color palette. Basically I wanted to give the blog something of a red or maroon finish, but after tinkering a while I decided to settle around earth tones.

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