Imminent Web Services

If you use Firefox/Thunderbird in Mac OS, you still need to untrust the CNNIC certs follow the steps in Screenshot: Remove CNNIC from Firefox and Thunderbird.

In Mac OS X: Click Applications -> Utilities -> Keychain Access -> Certificates -> (expand with V button below) -> System Roots -> (Unlock, top left) -> Double-click the cert -> Trust -> When using this Certificate -> Never Trust.

Instead of removing CNNIC certificates from your system, we should mark them as "untrusted". This way, when your system updates its cerficates, they will not slip in. As a precaution, you might need to form the habit of checking the trusted certficates installed in your system periodically.

I tried to install this module WWW::Curl via cpan, but failed on both Centos 4 and Centos 5. Instead of digging for the fix, I just enabled rpmforge repository, and installed through yum:

# yum install perl-WWW-Curl

Mozilla and Microsoft have added CNNIC root CA to the browser's Authorities and CA directory. Chinese users are in a rush removing them from their computers. Here is a post on how to do it (in Chinese).

Discussions can be found here:

LWP Cookbook has the example on how to use proxy for HTTP request.

Here are some more examples:

• connect-tunnel (in CPAN)
• ddos_accept.pl (in apache.org)

To connect to an HTTP proxy using LWP, here is what you do:

After upgrading the portage to 2.1.7, I started to get things like below when running emerge:

To install the PECL package uploadprogress on CentOS, we do:

1. Yum up some packages:
   # yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel
2. Install uploadprogress through PEAR:
   # pear install pecl/uploadprogress
3. Tell PHP to load uploadprogress:
   # echo extension=uploadprogress.so > /etc/php.d/uploadprogress.ini
4. Restart Apache:
   # /sbin/service httpd graceful

You could download the source package from http://www.erlang.org/download.html, then follow the README in the package and install. You will need at least these packages: ncurses-devel, openssl-devel, unixODBC, java-1.xx-openjdk-devel.

Or, you could use the pre-packaged ones. On CentOS 5, you can install the fedora repos, and then yum install the Erlang from there:

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarc...

 Books:

• Erlang Programming (Open Wikibook)
• Erlang Programming (Oreilly)
• Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Articles and blogs:

Here are some posts on setting up Squid in front of Drupal: