I stumbled upon something yesterday that I thought could be really useful, at least to me. Many people have suggested and explored the idea of XHTML syndication. Some have come from big names such as Anil Dash and Tantek. However, there is very little implementation. If every blog/CMS could have its own link for a file that spits out formatted XHTML code, life would be easier. For example, if I wanted to provide a little feed of my weblogtoolscollection, I would simply include a file from that blog that would spit out pre-formatted, pre determined code. No messing with XML, no tags to worry about or feeds to validate and then parse. The div tags etc could be defined in simple, easy to understand terms and would allow simple CSS formatting as well. A couple of different methods could be used to generate and then serve the file. WordPress could […]

Kses are a set of PHP scripts written by Ulf which removes all unwanted HTML elements and attributes, and it also does several checks on attribute values. kses can be used to avoid Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Buffer Overflows and Denial of Service attacks I have modified the original kses distribution scripts to allow the checking of allowed HTML tags. This code will fill in incomplete or incorrectly nested HTML/XHTML tags as well. I am working towards coding an HTML filter and validator and this is the first step. Future enhancements include checking and correction of validitity according to the doc-type mentioned in the HEAD etc. For now, here is the link to the modified kses.php file. For WordPress users, you can simply download this file, rename it to kses.php and upload it to the wp-includes directory of your WordPress installation. For all other uses, please follow the directions inside the […]

We have all been the victim of referrer spam in one way or the other and I have often wanted to show people the easy way to prevent this kind of prarsite from sucking our bandwidth (and getting in on the search engine action) SpywareInfo has a good article on referrer spam and also have some easy solutions to block out referrer spammers.