an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I looked in Apache's error_log file and noticed multiple lines like this: an unknown filter was not added: DEFLATE After thinking a bit I recalled that I added the following line in the .htaccess file in the root directory for on one of my domains, but never tested it properly: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html ...

RESTafari

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Reading Interoperability Wars - Episode 6 - Part 1 - Revenge of Babble just made me want to create a blog post with this title.

My first AJAX!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Probably years after everyone else, I've made my first AJAX-enabled web page today. As I do this from within Ruby on Rails, it was virtually painless to remove or replace a piece of HTML. My next AJAX step was to get in_place_editing working. The first problem was the InvalidAuthenticityToken and the ...

Sneak-peak at HTML 5 – no frames!

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

The page HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 (W3C Working Draft 22 January 2008) contains a long list of changes. The removal of frames was probably to be expected. Multiple elements and many attributes that only have a presentational function in HTML 4 are removed. There are also some elements ...

A “proxy” that converts a Real Player audio stream to MP3?

Monday, January 14th, 2008

While working on creating an Atom feed from a web page I got the idea to create a proxy that takes an audio stream in Real Player format over RTSP/RTP/RDP and converts it to MP3 over HTTP. It should actually not be harder than to use mplayer to "play" the ...

Creating an Atom feed from a web page

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Most of my time at the computer yesterday was spent working on an unofficial syndication of the broadcast archive for the Swedish radio show P3 Rytm. It's actually quite simple... :-) Use curl to download the web page broadcast archive for the show Use iconv to convert the page to UTF-8 Use ...

Good domain names are hard to find

Monday, January 7th, 2008

As the The Project is a web site, I had to look around quite a while for suitable domain names. Many of my desired names were already taken, but IIRC none of them was actually used for something. Some are probably a case of domain name speculation, some may be ...

Rest in peace, Netscape

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The end of life for the Netscape web browser was announced yesterday in the blog article End of Support for Netscape web browsers. Of course, everyone I know switched to Firefox a long time ago, so I can't say this has any impact but a small emotion of nostalgia, something ...