December 2005
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Optus Cable + Port 25 (SMTP)
I have been setting up a mail server of which smtp is an integral part. I could access it through my old net connection at home and I can through work but I am currently staying somewhere with Optus Cable. They block port 25! I called their tech support to confirm, he did say it was possible to have to port re-opened for this individual connection. But I am not the account holder. whirlpool...
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ADODB
During a recent project I ended up using ADODB and found it very effective. Especially the wrapper it places around PHPs sessions, it stores them in the DB instead of in the temp directory, which can be less secure. It also handles encryption of the session variables contents, but only using MD5 originally and I prefer to use SHA1. So I hacked the following to allow me to do so and I...