I wanted a complete list of the HTTP methods and I found them over here. They are:
- HEAD
- GET
- POST
- PUT
- DELETE
- TRACE
- OPTIONS
- CONNECT
- PATCH
HTTP request methods
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Web browser access keys
Reading about Access Keys. Also a good article on Wikipedia.
For Firefox on Linux use: Alt + Shift.
CSS positioning
Reading about CSS positioning today.
MySQL IF syntax
Found myself looking up the MySQL IF Syntax.
Chatting with Key about Angry Orange
Was chatting with Key about Angry Orange. I don’t think orange makes anyone angry.
WordPress post email notifications
Was looking for how to get WordPress to send email about new posts and found Post Notification a WordPress plugin that claims to do just that. Haven’t installed it yet.
Base 36 encoding and radix economy
Reading about Base 36 encoding and Radix economy.
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
Bumped into this old article by Joel Spolsky: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!).
IDN homograph attacks and confusable characters
Today I read about IDN homograph attacks. Basically it’s where Unicode characters that look like ASCII characters are put into a link so the link seems to go to a genuine/trusted site. In related news I found a list of confusable characters via stackoverflow. Also found a list of confusable symbols.
Punycode
Today I learned about Punycode, which is a system for reversibly encoding Unicode in ASCII.