Category: Web

Testing page performance

Recently I was involved in a project, which involved converting all links from http to https, basically making the site SSL enabled. After we did the changes we needed to measure the performance of the pages. You can test this using a combination of techniques described here : a. Using chrome developer tools, you can

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Using Sprites

You would have probably learnt about using sprites from here http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_image_sprites.asp or somewhere else on the web. Many tutorials who have told you to use background positioning to position the sprite. This is somewhat correct, but you aren’t really thinking long term over here. If in the future, there is a change in the sprite generation

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Cheatsheet for CSS3

a. aligning an object in center of another div : margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; b. positioning a div anywhere on the screen. top doesn’t work without position being set as absolute. position: absolute; left: 94px; top: 154px; c. rotating a image transform: rotate(-180deg); -ms-transform: rotate(-180deg); /* IE 9 */ -webkit-transform: rotate(-180deg); /* Safari and Chrome

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Penetration techniques – Part 2

Continuing the series from Agnitum firewall guide: 3 . Application window control Windows allows applications to exchange window messages between processes. Malicious processes can get control over other network-enabled applications sending them window messages and imitating user input from keyboard and mouse clicks. The example of using this technique is Breakout leaktest (http://www.firewallleaktester.com/leaktest16.htm). Here the

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Penetration techniques – Part 1

Below are some penetration techniques I recently came across in the agnitum firewall guide.  I thought I would share it with all who are doing some sort of tests of their firewall or just FYI. 1. Components injection Windows operating system by design enables installing system interceptors (hooks) through which foreign code can be injected

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XPath really made easy editor

XPath is one language, if call it so which is increasingly being used everywhere. Is used from development to testing environment. In the testing fields, its been used as a add on for many testing tools. Consider SoapUI which is used for testing and developing web services. Over here XPath can be used to trace

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Firefox's motherload of settings

If you ever wondered how you can fully customize your browser, this is it: Goto your browser tab, enter -> about:config You will be taken to a full screen of settings. but be careful. Also you want to view your cache or delete it use about:cache. about:plugins is another one you can try. about:blank sounds

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