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Stunnel, a practical solution for SSL/TLS
10-09-2010 Add a commentTLS/SSL encryption is generaly a good thing to use, however it can in some cases be hard to implement. Stunnel is a small program that provides SSL/TLS capabilities to clients and/or servers that don’t speak SSL/TLS natively. It basically works like a proxy, transparently adding an encryption layer to the communication layer; or removing it. [...]
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Integrating Solr with PHP
20-07-2010 6 CommentsCurrently there isn’t really a standard way to integrate Solr with PHP. For various projects I have used: manual HTTP requests PHP Solr extension solr-php-client library They all have their own pros and cons.
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Cross-domain XHR with Varnish
09-07-2010 Add a commentCross-domain XHR (AJAX) requests can be an issue. There are workarounds like JSONP but sometimes JSONP is not available, or you need a POST request, or you have other special requirements that require usage of XHR. In that case a webproxy on your own domain is often used to resolve the crossdomain issue. There are [...]
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Controlling Varnish ESI inside your application
05-07-2010 2 CommentsFor me one of the best features of Varnish is ESI (Edge Side Includes). It allows you to combine elements with different lifetimes into a single page. This way you don’t need to regenerate a complete page as soon as a news listing somewhere on the page changes. And you can still cache pages while [...]
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