HTML5 Sandbox and some notes 25 June 2012 novogeek (0) While building mashups, one of the primary goals is to securely isolate content coming from different origins. Generally, client side mashups are built in one of the two ways-(1) Embedding third party scripts in a web page (2) Loading remote content via iframes. Embedding scripts provides more inter... [More]
What web devs should know about HTTP ”Referer” header 17 March 2012 novogeek (2) Every HTTP request has a set of Request Headers which carry pieces of useful information from the client to the server. One such request header is the "Referer" header, which contains address of the previous page from which the current page was requested. E.g., If you search for "HTML5" on google a... [More]
Analyzing the new “Rihanna” Facebook spam 10 November 2011 novogeek (3) Some of you might have seen a fast spreading spam on Facebook with the name “Rihanna” (named after the popular singer/recording artist), as in the screen shot. We have been seeing several spam messages on Facebook these days and it appears this is yet another social engineering trick by ... [More]