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Installing Sun JDK/JRE on ubuntu (10.04 LTS)
It was actually easy till the time i got a message from the new installation of ubuntu that sun-java6-jdk is not found in package list. From last two versions of linux specifically on ubuntu i used to do following for installing java. This command asks me the root password and then installs sun jdk and [...]
Using HTTPS GET/POST – Commons HttpClient with Self Signed Certificate
I think Commons HTTPClient is a quite useful open source library for accessing various HTTP APIs from Java back end. It is very easy to setup a quick test program using this library. I used this very recently when one of our clients requested quick HTTPS access on one of his servers and we had [...]
ssl_error_rx_record_too_long – Apache SSL
I faced this error recently while configuring SSL on apache and got really confused. After doing some research figured this out that there was some mis-configurations which was causing the issue. I checked meaning of this SSL response at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslerr.html . Here you can check all the error codes for SSL. This error code says [...]
Sender Policy Framework (SPF) – Notes on my learnings
I met one of my close friends two days back and during our revelry session he asked me a question. Being not from IT field (not exactly but far from IT from long time) he asked me to look into his problem which was related to IT. He has a website for his business and [...]
window.open in IE (invalid argument)
I was struggling with this issue and I found some hope on some blog and then thought the same way and fixed the issue. Issue was quite simple but took significant time. It was a webpage from where we wanted to open a new web page using javascript function window.open(). The standard syntax of this [...]