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WordPress – Sending Email with WP Mail SMTP

While setting up WordPress/Wamp on my windows machine, I had not configured the email settings. But later realized WordPress needs to send emails to the admin/authors/new users etc for various purposes and it is important to have this ability, specially, if you intend to have more than one user(s). By default, WordPress uses the PHP [...]


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 [...]


OWASP Top 10 Web security Flaws and their root Causes

Owasp Top 10 And Security Flaw Root Causes View more presentations from Marco Morana.


errorcode: sec_error_ca_cert_invalid

When I generated and signed the generated certificate for using SSL and tried to test it, Firefox 3 gave me following error: errorcode: sec_error_ca_cert_invalid I tried to use IE 7, and similar error. I was little confused. The reason of confusion was that when i tested it earlier it was working fine with old versions [...]


How to setup https/ssl using Apache web server (httpd)

This is not the end to end setup procedure of making your website secure but a short description of an exercise in which i tried to setup a website on https which was already running on http and configures httpd i.e. Apache server using Self signed certificate. The aim was to run website in secure [...]