Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Passing Apache reverse-proxy auth from Windows to Linux

July 30th, 2009

Technical post here, but this one stumped me for a long time. This is another one of those “I’ll post it and hope it saves somebody else some time” write ups. Problem I’m running Apache web servers on Windows – because it’s an intranet environment, everybody uses IE (well: I use Firefox) and I know their Windows [...]

Tech rant: downloading software from IBM

September 9th, 2008

Was this their use case for “Developer want to download DB2 client software”? I documented the steps it took me to do a single download from their site, and sent them an e-mail which will either be politely ignored as not understanding the complexities of their business or (at best) printed our and pinned up on [...]

Fixing mod_auth_sspi and IE losing POST data

June 5th, 2008

I think I’ve fixed this IE-loses-POST data bug; I’m seeking feedback, verification and testing from others that want to lend a hand. Sources are in my Mercurial repository. Download mod_auth_sspi_1.0.5b-vc9-2.2.11.zip (beta, updated 2009/2/17) More binaries are available in my downloads directory. Important this binary was built for Apache 2.2.11 (other downloads for for Apache 2.2.8 and 2.2.9 are [...]