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ASP.NET Security Vulnerability Found

September 19th, 2010 No comments

A recent vulnerability called 'Padding Oracle' has just been found for ASP.Net apps. Using this vulnerability an attacker can: a. Download files within an ASP.NET Application like the web.config file (say goodbye to your connection strings). b. Decrypt data sent to the client in an encrypted state, like ViewState data within a page (did you [...]

How to have a 'FavIcon' for your website

January 18th, 2006 2 comments

Hello there! You must have come across many sites that have a small icon right before the beginning of the URL as seen on the left. The same is also displayed in the 'Bookmarks' menu if you are using FireFox ('Bookmarks' is to FireFox as 'Favorites' is to IE). In this tutorial, I will demonstrate [...]

How to display your Awstats publicly

January 6th, 2006 No comments

You may have come across situations wherein you need to make the statistics of your website publicly available. Though, there is no direct way of displaying statistics of your domain on your website, you can use the below method to accomplish this:

How many visitors on my website?

August 25th, 2005 No comments

Here's an easy way to know the number of active visitors on your website at any given moment. To accomplish this, we are going to use traditional ASP. Let's begin! 1) First of all, we will need to create a file that keeps the track of active users. For that, create a file called 'global.asa'. [...]

How to send Emails via ASP using SMTP Authentication

August 2nd, 2005 No comments

There are several ways through which emails can be sent via ASP. The method which I am going to demonstrate will use CDOSYS and will use SMTP authentication. Secondly, I will encapsulate the code in a general function so that it can be used in any of your ASP pages by just including this file. [...]

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