When working with Apache’s mod_rewrite module, you’ll often encounter the need to handle query strings. This article explains how the question mark (?) and the QSA flag are used in Apache Rewrite Rules to manage and manipulate URLs without exposing sensitive information. What are Rewrite Rules? Apache Rewrite Rules are […]
It has happened to me many times that issues discussed and re-discussed a million times, came back into vogue as doubts, perhaps trivial but always dangerous, being able to give rise to unknown outputs. I’m talking about the very useful JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format, often useful in case of […]
In the era of microservices and distributed applications, traditional session-based authentication often falls short. Enter JSON Web Tokens (JWT), a compact and self-contained mechanism for encoding user information. This article dives into the heart of JWTs, exploring their workings, benefits, and implementation with JavaScript and Java code examples. Anatomy of […]
At least once in your life as a developer you will need a regular expression to solve some kind of filter / search / query on strings. Whenever this happened, you probably turned to the internet. This is why I decided to compile a mini list with some of the […]
I want to show you today how to do little operations and configurations when you have to setup a new application on an Apache HTTPD installation.The following are classic daily operations that a system administrator does, which can be tricky if done once in a while. Configure a virtual host […]