CSS – Shadow Boxing
This isn’t revolutionary, but making simple boxes with shadows can be really easy with a little simple CSS. The other day I wanted to make a really simple box with a shadow. Adding gray borders kind of does the trick, but you lose the nice hatches out of the corners that indicate depth. Then it dawned on me that using relative positioning, you could easily make a nice shadow. Here’s how you can do it.
In your style sheet add the following two classes:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | .shadowbox { background: #ccc; position: relative; top: 2px; left: 2px; } .shadowbox div { background: #333; border: 2px solid #000; color: #fff; padding: 10px; position: relative; top: -2px; left: -2px; } |
Then simply code your box:
1 2 3 | <div class="shadowbox"> <div>And there you have your result!</div> </div> |
See example below:
HTTP POST from PHP, without cURL
I don’t think we do a very good job of evangelizing some of the nice things that the PHP streams layer does in the PHP manual, or even in general. At least, every time I search for the code snippet that allows you to do an HTTP POST request, I don’t find it in the manual and resort to reading the source. (You can find it if you search for “HTTP wrapper” in the online documentation, but that’s not really what you think you’re searching for when you’re looking).So, here’s an example of how to send a POST request with straight up PHP, no cURL:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | <?php function do_post_request($url, $data, $optional_headers = null) { $params = array('http' => array( 'method' => 'POST', 'content' => $data )); if ($optional_headers !== null) { $params['http']['header'] = $optional_headers; } $ctx = stream_context_create($params); $fp = @fopen($url, 'rb', false, $ctx); if (!$fp) { throw new Exception("Problem with $url, $php_errormsg"); } $response = @stream_get_contents($fp); if ($response === false) { throw new Exception("Problem reading data from $url, $php_errormsg"); } return $response; } ?> |
$optional_headers is a string containing additional HTTP headers that you would like to send in your request.
PHP’s HTTP wrapper will automatically fill out the Content-Length header based on the length of the $data that you pass in. It will also automatically set the Content-Type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded if you don’t specify one in the $optional_headers.
I find this very handy; I don’t need to code in redirection logic, HTTP auth handling, user agent setting and so on; they are handled for me by PHP.
You may also want to look into http_build_query() which is a convenience function that allows you to assemble query/post parameters from a PHP variable, applying appropriate escaping.
Kudos to Sara Golemon for both of these things. You can find more documentation on the HTTP wrapper options in the HTTP and HTTPS page in the PHP manual.
PHP – send variables using POST without using forms or hidden variables
There came a situation where I needed the ability to send information via the POST method to another URL ( or for that matter it could be another PHP script ) and I did not want to use another language or some sort of trickery, there has to be an elegant solution. Unless I am wrong I think this example below outlines just that:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | <?php // Generate the request header $ReqHeader = "POST $URI HTTP/1.1\n". "Host: $Host\n". "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n". "Content-Length: $ContentLength\n\n". "$ReqBody\n"; // Open the connection to the host $socket = fsockopen($Host, 80, &$errno, &$errstr); if (!$socket) $Result["errno"] = $errno; $Result["errstr"] = $errstr; return $Result; } $idx = 0; fputs($socket, $ReqHeader); while (!feof($socket)) $Result[$idx++] = fgets($socket, 128); } ?> |
Or you can use the cURL extensions for PHP. Once you build it and compile their support into PHP, it is fairly easy to do posting stuff (even over https):
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <?php $URL="www.mysite.com/test.php"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://$URL"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "Data1=blah&Data2=blah");curl_exec ($ch); curl_close ($ch); ?> |
This will have the net effect of posting your data to the $URL site, without any header hacking.
You can also do other nifty things with cURL, like retrieve the HTML into variables and scrape through it for neat functionality.To use cURL you need to recompile PHP or check with your ISP to see if they support it
Javascript – Resize to inner Broswer Dimensions
Do you have something that you plan on displaying in your browser that is a specific size? Want to resize the browser viewing area to exactly match it? Want to do all this in a popup window? While, yes, resizing browsers is not a good usability idea, I have come up with a (I think) bulletproof way to size the browser viewport to it’s inside dimensions. Now, the problem in the past has, not surprisingly, been IE. It has no way of determining outerWidth/outerHeight values, and needless to say every browser is totally different. Brother in arms Quirksmode has put together a definitive list of everything viewport related. He has put together a fantastic “get inner dimensions” function that we will need:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | function GetInnerSize () { var x,y; if (self.innerHeight) // all except Explorer { x = self.innerWidth; y = self.innerHeight; } else if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight) // Explorer 6 Strict Mode { x = document.documentElement.clientWidth; y = document.documentElement.clientHeight; } else if (document.body) // other Explorers { x = document.body.clientWidth; y = document.body.clientHeight; } return [x,y]; } |
Now, to overcome IE’s limitations, and to ameliorate everyone else, we’re going to do things a little differently than past solutions. Since we won’t know the outer dimensions in IE, we are going to need a yardstick to figure things out. Luckily, just like Archimedes, we’re going to use displacement to do this.
One thing that every browser DOES support is screen.availHeight and screen.availWidth. Nice. OK, so what we are going to do is make the browser the biggest it can be, which is to say the entire size of the available screen resolution so that we will also know now how big the browser is. Then we take an inner dimension snapshot, and presto! We have the offset between the viewable area of the browser, and it’s outer frame size. A little math magic is all that is left and we are going to resize and position it back in place. Here’s the function for your enjoyment:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | function ResizeToInner (w, h, x, y) { // make sure we have a final x/y value // pick one or the other windows value, not both if (x==undefined) x = window.screenLeft || window.screenX; if (y==undefined) y = window.screenTop || window.screenY; // for now, move the window to the top left // then resize to the maximum viewable dimension possible window.moveTo(0,0); window.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight); // now that we have set the browser to it's biggest possible size // get the inner dimensions. the offset is the difference. var inner = GetInnerSize(); var ox = screen.availWidth-inner[0]; var oy = screen.availHeight-inner[1]; // now that we have an offset value, size the browser // and position it window.resizeTo(w+ox, h+oy); window.moveTo(x,y); } |
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phpminiadmin – lightweight phpMyAdmin for MySQL
I have on some projects for clients come across server environments where the access that I would be allowed for the duration of the project would not allow me to make database changes, and in some rare cases not access at all to anything that would allow me to see, view or manipulate the database. Now of course I this can be done by code, but why reinvent the wheel or should I say I have been spoiled ( or relied upon ) phpMyAdmin for this ability. I would like to share a lightweight simple tool that I have come across in situations like this that more than fits the bill, since in these cases you will more than likely have the dbname, dbuser and dbpass and the ability to upload scripts, this tool fits the job nicely. phpminiadmin is an extremely lightweight alternative to heavy phpMyAdmin for quick and easy access MySQL databases. Instead of installing huge phpMyAdmin (~11Mb) and trying to figure out how to use all it’s features, just upload one ~10Kb file and it’s ready to use!
- then access it via the browser (ex. http://yoursite.com/phpminiadmin.php)
- script will ask you for DB login/pwd
- after successfull db login you will see area where you able to enter any SQL commands (select, update, insert, etc.)
- even if you don’t know SQL it’s still easy to manage tables in DB, export and import data using ‘quick links’ on the top bar
For more information: http://phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net/
CSS Image Borders
Thought I would mention a quick and easy way to have all your photos ( aside from resizing them to a predefined thumbnail size ) have that polaroid look with a nice white space/border outlined with a nice thin black trim. Its really quite easy and a real simple line of css code. To make sure this does not conflict with other potential predefined image css items I have named the class differently than simply tagging this onto the default IMG tag
1 2 3 4 5 | .imgborder { background:white; padding:4px; border:1px solid black; } |
See below for working example:

sendmail SMTP-AUTH-TLS How to
This document describes how to install a mail server based on sendmail that is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS. It should work (maybe with slight changes concerning paths etc.) on all *nix operating systems. I tested it on Debian Woody so far.This how to is meant as a practical guide; it does not cover the theoretical backgrounds. They are treated in a lot of other documents in the web.
1. Get the sources
We need the following software: openssl, cyrus-sasl2, and sendmail. We will install the software from the /tmp directory.
1 2 3 4 | cd /tmp wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/cyrus-sasl-2.1.19.tar.gz wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.14.3.tar.gz |
2. Install Openssl
1 2 3 4 5 6 | tar xvfz openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz cd openssl-0.9.7c ./config make make install ln -s /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl |
3. Install Cyrus-sasl2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | cd /tmp tar xvfz cyrus-sasl-2.1.19.tar.gz cd cyrus-sasl-2.1.19 ./configure --enable-anon --enable-plain --enable-login --disable-krb4 --with-saslauthd=/var/run/saslauthd --with-pam --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl --with-plugindir=/usr/local/lib/sasl2 --enable-cram --enable-digest --enable-otp make make install If /usr/lib/sasl2 exists: mv /usr/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl2_orig echo "pwcheck_method: saslauthd" > /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf echo "mech_list: login plain" >> /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf mkdir -p /var/run/saslauthd |
4. Create Certificates for TLS
1 2 3 | mkdir -p /etc/mail/certs cd /etc/mail/certs openssl req -new -x509 -keyout cakey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 365 |
- Enter your password for smtpd.key.
- Enter your Country Name (e.g., “DE”).
- Enter your State or Province Name.
- Enter your City.
- Enter your Organization Name (e.g., the name of your company).
- Enter your Organizational Unit Name (e.g. “IT Department”).
- Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the system (e.g. “server1.example.com”).
- Enter your Email Address.
1 | openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout sendmail.pem -out sendmail.pem -days 365 |
- Again, enter your password for smtpd.key.
- Enter your Country Name (e.g., “DE”).
- Enter your State or Province Name.
- Enter your City.
- Enter your Organization Name (e.g., the name of your company).
- Enter your Organizational Unit Name (e.g. “IT Department”).
- Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the system (e.g. “server1.example.com”).
- Enter your Email Address.
1 2 | openssl x509 -noout -text -in sendmail.pem chmod 600 ./sendmail.pem |
5. Install Sendmail
1 2 3 | cd /tmp tar xvfz sendmail.8.12.11.tar.gz cd sendmail-8.12.11/devtools/Site/ |
Create the file site.config.m4 (in devtools/Site/):
There should already be a file site.config.m4.sample or something similar simply append this
# SASL2 (smtp authentication) APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DSASL=2') APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lsasl2') # # STARTTLS (smtp + tls/ssl) APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-DSTARTTLS') APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_ENVDEF', `-D_FFR_SMTP_SSL') APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/local/ssl/lib') |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | mkdir -p /usr/man mkdir -p /usr/man/man1 mkdir -p /usr/man/man8 cp -pfr /usr/local/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl2 echo /usr/lib/sasl2 >> /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig ln -s /usr/local/ssl/include/openssl /usr/include/openssl |
Now we can compile sendmail:
1 2 3 4 5 | cd /tmp/sendmail-8.12.11/ useradd smmsp groupadd smmsp sh Build -c sh Build install |
Let’s create our sendmail.cf:
1 | cd cf/cf/ |
Create the file sendmail.mc with the following contents:
dnl ### do SMTPAUTH
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')dnl
dnl ### do STARTTLS
define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/mail/certs')dnl
define(`confCACERT', `/etc/mail/certs/cacert.pem')dnl
define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/etc/mail/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/etc/mail/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `/etc/mail/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `/etc/mail/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Port=465, Name=MTA-SSL, M=s')dnl
dnl ###
define(`confDEF_CHAR_SET', `iso-8859-1')dnl
define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `15000000')dnl Denial of Service Attacks
define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', `30')dnl Denial of Service Attacks
define(`confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE', `2')dnl Denial of Service Attacks
define(`confMAXRCPTSPERMESSAGE', `50')dnl Denial of service Attacks
define(`confSINGLE_LINE_FROM_HEADER', `True')dnl
define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j')dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `True')dnl
define(`confTO_INITIAL', `6m')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `20s')dnl
define(`confTO_HELO', `5m')dnl
define(`confTO_HOSTSTATUS', `2m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATAINIT', `6m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATABLOCK', `35m')dnl
define(`confTO_DATAFINAL', `35m')dnl
define(`confDIAL_DELAY', `20s')dnl
define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-apparently-to')dnl
define(`confALIAS_WAIT', `0')dnl
define(`confMAX_HOP', `35')dnl
define(`confQUEUE_LA', `5')dnl
define(`confREFUSE_LA', `12')dnl
define(`confSEPARATE_PROC', `False')dnl
define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `true')dnl
define(`confWORK_RECIPIENT_FACTOR', `1000')dnl
define(`confWORK_TIME_FACTOR', `3000')dnl
define(`confQUEUE_SORT_ORDER', `Time')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,goaway,restrictmailq,restrictqrun,needmailhelo')dnl
OSTYPE(linux)dnl
FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl
FEATURE(`generics_entire_domain')dnl
FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
FEATURE(`nouucp',`reject')dnl
FEATURE(`redirect')dnl
FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain')dnl
FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl
FEATURE(`virtuser_entire_domain')dnl
FEATURE(dnsbl,`blackholes.mail-abuse.org',
` Mail from $&{client_addr} rejected; see http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/lookup?$& {client_addr}')dnl
FEATURE(dnsbl,`dialups.mail-abuse.org',
` Mail from dial-up rejected; see http://mail-abuse.org/dul/enduser.htm')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
FEATURE(access_db)dnl
FEATURE(lookupdotdomain)dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa')dnl
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
|
In order to create /etc/mail/sendmail.cf run the following commands:
1 2 | sh Build sendmail.cf cp sendmail.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf |
Finally we have to create some files:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | cd /etc/mail/ touch /etc/mail/local-host-names touch /etc/mail/virtusertable /usr/sbin/makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable mkdir -p /var/spool/mqueue chmod 700 /var/spool/mqueue chown root:root /var/spool/mqueue chown root:root /etc/mail/sendmail.cf chmod 444 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf chown root:root /etc/mail/submit.cf chmod 444 /etc/mail/submit.cf touch /etc/mail/aliases newaliases touch /etc/mail/access /usr/sbin/makemap hash access < access |
We need an init script for sendmail (this should be copied to /etc/init.d/sendmail):
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Initializing SMTP port. (sendmail)"
/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
;;
stop)
echo "Shutting down SMTP port:"
killall /usr/sbin/sendmail
;;
restart|reload)
$0 stop && $0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
|
1 | chmod 755 /etc/init.d/sendmail |
In order to start sendmail at boot time do the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc2.d/S20sendmail ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc3.d/S20sendmail ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc4.d/S20sendmail ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc5.d/S20sendmail ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc0.d/K20sendmail ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc1.d/K20sendmail ln -s /etc/init.d/sendmail /etc/rc6.d/K20sendmail |
6. Configure Saslauthd
Create /etc/init.d/saslauthd:
#!/bin/sh -e
NAME=saslauthd
DAEMON="/usr/sbin/${NAME}"
DESC="SASL Authentication Daemon"
DEFAULTS=/etc/default/saslauthd
test -f "${DAEMON}" || exit 0
# Source defaults file; edit that file to configure this script.
if [ -e "${DEFAULTS}" ]; then
. "${DEFAULTS}"
fi
# If we're not to start the daemon, simply exit
if [ "${START}" != "yes" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# If we have no mechanisms defined
if [ "x${MECHANISMS}" = "x" ]; then
echo "You need to configure ${DEFAULTS} with mechanisms to be used"
exit 0
fi
# Add our mechanimsms with the necessary flag
for i in ${MECHANISMS}; do
PARAMS="${PARAMS} -a ${i}"
done
# Consider our options
case "${1}" in
start)
echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
ln -fs /var/spool/postfix/var/run/${NAME} /var/run/${NAME}
${DAEMON} ${PARAMS}
echo "${NAME}."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping ${DESC}: "
PROCS=`ps aux | grep -iw '/usr/sbin/saslauthd' | grep -v 'grep' |awk '{print $2}' | tr '\n' ' '`
if [ "x${PROCS}" != "x" ]; then
kill -15 ${PROCS} &> /dev/null
fi
echo "${NAME}."
;;
restart|force-reload)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
echo "${NAME}."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/${NAME} {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
|
1 | chmod 755 /etc/init.d/saslauthd |
In order to start saslauthd at boot time do the following:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc2.d/S20saslauthd ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc3.d/S20saslauthd ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc4.d/S20saslauthd ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc5.d/S20saslauthd ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc0.d/K20saslauthd ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc1.d/K20saslauthd ln -s /etc/init.d/saslauthd /etc/rc6.d/K20saslauthd |
Then create /etc/default/saslauthd:
# This needs to be uncommented before saslauthd will be run automatically START=yes # You must specify the authentication mechanisms you wish to use. # This defaults to "pam" for PAM support, but may also include # "shadow" or "sasldb" MECHANISMS=shadow |
If you find out that saslauthd is located in /usr/local/sbin instead of /usr/sbin create a symbolic link:
1 | ln -s /usr/local/sbin/saslauthd /usr/sbin/saslauthd |
Then start saslauthd and sendmail:
1 2 3 | /etc/init.d/saslauthd start /etc/init.d/sendmail start |
7. Test your Configuration
To verify that your sendmail was compiled with the right options type
1 | /usr/sbin/sendmail -d0.1 -bv root |
You should see that sendmail was compiled with SASLv2 and STARTTLS:
To see if SMTP-AUTH and TLS work properly now run the following command:
1 2 | telnet localhost 25
ehlo localhost |
If you see the lines
250-STARTTLS and 250-AUTH
everything is fine.
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HTTP Class for PHP (supports both cURL and fsockopen)
This is a wrapper HTTP class that uses either cURL or fsockopen to harvest resources from the web. It supports a handy subset of functionalists of HTTP that are mostly needed in day to day coding. Scripts who need to communicate with other servers will find it useful. If you’re looking to invoke any RESTful API and don’t want to bother adding a bunch of libraries for that simple thing, just put this class and you’re set.
- Can use both cURL and fsockopen.
- Degrades to fsockopen if cURL not enabled.
- Supports HTTP Basic authentication.
- Supports defining custom request headers.
- Supports defining connection timeout values.
- Supports defining user agent and referral values.
- Supports both user-defined and persistent cookies.
- Supports secure connections (HTTPS) with and without cURL.
- Supports adding requests parameters for both GET and POST.
- Supports automatic redirection (maximum redirect can be defined).
- Returns HTTP response headers and response body data separately.
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This can be used with scripts that need * a way to communicate with various APIs who support REST. * * @author Md Emran Hasan <phpfour@gmail.com> * @package HTTP Library * @copyright 2007-2008 Md Emran Hasan * @link http://www.phpfour.com/lib/http * @since Version 0.1 */ class Http { /** * Contains the target URL * * @var string */ var $target; /** * Contains the target host * * @var string */ var $host; /** * Contains the target port * * @var integer */ var $port; /** * Contains the target path * * @var string */ var $path; /** * Contains the target schema * * @var string */ var $schema; /** * Contains the http method (GET or POST) * * @var string */ var $method; /** * Contains the parameters for request * * @var array */ var $params; /** * Contains the cookies for request * * @var array */ var $cookies; /** * Contains the cookies retrieved from response * * @var array */ var $_cookies; /** * Number of seconds to timeout * * @var integer */ var $timeout; /** * Whether to use cURL or not * * @var boolean */ var $useCurl; /** * Contains the referrer URL * * @var string */ var $referrer; /** * Contains the User agent string * * @var string */ var $userAgent; /** * Contains the cookie path (to be used with cURL) * * @var string */ var $cookiePath; /** * Whether to use cookie at all * * @var boolean */ var $useCookie; /** * Whether to store cookie for subsequent requests * * @var boolean */ var $saveCookie; /** * Contains the Username (for authentication) * * @var string */ var $username; /** * Contains the Password (for authentication) * * @var string */ var $password; /** * Contains the fetched web source * * @var string */ var $result; /** * Contains the last headers * * @var string */ var $headers; /** * Contains the last call's http status code * * @var string */ var $status; /** * Whether to follow http redirect or not * * @var boolean */ var $redirect; /** * The maximum number of redirect to follow * * @var integer */ var $maxRedirect; /** * The current number of redirects * * @var integer */ var $curRedirect; /** * Contains any error occurred * * @var string */ var $error; /** * Store the next token * * @var string */ var $nextToken; /** * Whether to keep debug messages * * @var boolean */ var $debug; /** * Stores the debug messages * * @var array * @todo will keep debug messages */ var $debugMsg; /** * Constructor for initializing the class with default values. * * @return void */ function Http() { $this->clear(); } /** * Initialize preferences * * This function will take an associative array of config values and * will initialize the class variables using them. * * Example use: * * $httpConfig['method'] = 'GET'; * $httpConfig['target'] = 'http://www.somedomain.com/index.html'; * $httpConfig['referrer'] = 'http://www.somedomain.com'; * $httpConfig['user_agent'] = 'My Crawler'; * $httpConfig['timeout'] = '30'; * $httpConfig['params'] = array('var1' => 'testvalue', 'var2' => 'somevalue'); * * $http = new Http(); * $http->initialize($httpConfig); * * @param array Config values as associative array * @return void */ function initialize($config = array()) { $this->clear(); foreach ($config as $key => $val) { if (isset($this->$key)) { $method = 'set' . ucfirst(str_replace('_', '', $key)); if (method_exists($this, $method)) { $this->$method($val); } else { $this->$key = $val; } } } } /** * Clear Everything * * Clears all the properties of the class and sets the object to * the beginning state. Very handy if you are doing subsequent calls * with different data. * * @return void */ function clear() { // Set the request defaults $this->host = ''; $this->port = 0; $this->path = ''; $this->target = ''; $this->method = 'GET'; $this->schema = 'http'; $this->params = array(); $this->headers = array(); $this->cookies = array(); $this->_cookies = array(); // Set the config details $this->debug = FALSE; $this->error = ''; $this->status = 0; $this->timeout = '25'; $this->useCurl = TRUE; $this->referrer = ''; $this->username = ''; $this->password = ''; $this->redirect = TRUE; // Set the cookie and agent defaults $this->nextToken = ''; $this->useCookie = TRUE; $this->saveCookie = TRUE; $this->maxRedirect = 3; $this->cookiePath = 'cookie.txt'; $this->userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.9'; } /** * Set target URL * * @param string URL of target resource * @return void */ function setTarget($url) { if ($url) { $this->target = $url; } } /** * Set http method * * @param string HTTP method to use (GET or POST) * @return void */ function setMethod($method) { if ($method == 'GET' || $method == 'POST') { $this->method = $method; } } /** * Set referrer URL * * @param string URL of referrer page * @return void */ function setReferrer($referrer) { if ($referrer) { $this->referrer = $referrer; } } /** * Set User agent string * * @param string Full user agent string * @return void */ function setUseragent($agent) { if ($agent) { $this->userAgent = $agent; } } /** * Set timeout of execution * * @param integer Timeout delay in seconds * @return void */ function setTimeout($seconds) { if ($seconds > 0) { $this->timeout = $seconds; } } /** * Set cookie path (cURL only) * * @param string File location of cookiejar * @return void */ function setCookiepath($path) { if ($path) { $this->cookiePath = $path; } } /** * Set request parameters * * @param array All the parameters for GET or POST * @return void */ function setParams($dataArray) { if (is_array($dataArray)) { $this->params = array_merge($this->params, $dataArray); } } /** * Set basic http authentication realm * * @param string Username for authentication * @param string Password for authentication * @return void */ function setAuth($username, $password) { if (!empty($username) && !empty($password)) { $this->username = $username; $this->password = $password; } } /** * Set maximum number of redirection to follow * * @param integer Maximum number of redirects * @return void */ function setMaxredirect($value) { if (!empty($value)) { $this->maxRedirect = $value; } } /** * Add request parameters * * @param string Name of the parameter * @param string Value of the parameter * @return void */ function addParam($name, $value) { if (!empty($name) && !empty($value)) { $this->params[$name] = $value; } } /** * Add a cookie to the request * * @param string Name of cookie * @param string Value of cookie * @return void */ function addCookie($name, $value) { if (!empty($name) && !empty($value)) { $this->cookies[$name] = $value; } } /** * Whether to use cURL or not * * @param boolean Whether to use cURL or not * @return void */ function useCurl($value = TRUE) { if (is_bool($value)) { $this->useCurl = $value; } } /** * Whether to use cookies or not * * @param boolean Whether to use cookies or not * @return void */ function useCookie($value = TRUE) { if (is_bool($value)) { $this->useCookie = $value; } } /** * Whether to save persistent cookies in subsequent calls * * @param boolean Whether to save persistent cookies or not * @return void */ function saveCookie($value = TRUE) { if (is_bool($value)) { $this->saveCookie = $value; } } /** * Whether to follow HTTP redirects * * @param boolean Whether to follow HTTP redirects or not * @return void */ function followRedirects($value = TRUE) { if (is_bool($value)) { $this->redirect = $value; } } /** * Get execution result body * * @return string output of execution */ function getResult() { return $this->result; } /** * Get execution result headers * * @return array last headers of execution */ function getHeaders() { return $this->headers; } /** * Get execution status code * * @return integer last http status code */ function getStatus() { return $this->status; } /** * Get last execution error * * @return string last error message (if any) */ function getError() { return $this->error; } /** * Execute a HTTP request * * Executes the http fetch using all the set properties. Intellegently * switch to fsockopen if cURL is not present. And be smart to follow * redirects (if asked so). * * @param string URL of the target page (optional) * @param string URL of the referrer page (optional) * @param string The http method (GET or POST) (optional) * @param array Parameter array for GET or POST (optional) * @return string Response body of the target page */ function execute($target = '', $referrer = '', $method = '', $data = array()) { // Populate the properties $this->target = ($target) ? $target : $this->target; $this->method = ($method) ? $method : $this->method; $this->referrer = ($referrer) ? $referrer : $this->referrer; // Add the new params if (is_array($data) && count($data) > 0) { $this->params = array_merge($this->params, $data); } // Process data, if presented if(is_array($this->params) && count($this->params) > 0) { // Get a blank slate $tempString = array(); // Convert data array into a query string (ie animal=dog&sport=baseball) foreach ($this->params as $key => $value) { if(strlen(trim($value))>0) { $tempString[] = $key . "=" . urlencode($value); } } $queryString = join('&', $tempString); } // If cURL is not installed, we'll force fscokopen $this->useCurl = $this->useCurl && in_array('curl', get_loaded_extensions()); // GET method configuration if($this->method == 'GET') { if(isset($queryString)) { $this->target = $this->target . "?" . $queryString; } } // Parse target URL $urlParsed = parse_url($this->target); // Handle SSL connection request if ($urlParsed['scheme'] == 'https') { $this->host = 'ssl://' . $urlParsed['host']; $this->port = ($this->port != 0) ? $this->port : 443; } else { $this->host = $urlParsed['host']; $this->port = ($this->port != 0) ? $this->port : 80; } // Finalize the target path $this->path = (isset($urlParsed['path']) ? $urlParsed['path'] : '/') . (isset($urlParsed['query']) ? '?' . $urlParsed['query'] : ''); $this->schema = $urlParsed['scheme']; // Pass the requred cookies $this->_passCookies(); // Process cookies, if requested if(is_array($this->cookies) && count($this->cookies) > 0) { // Get a blank slate $tempString = array(); // Convert cookiesa array into a query string (ie animal=dog&sport=baseball) foreach ($this->cookies as $key => $value) { if(strlen(trim($value)) > 0) { $tempString[] = $key . "=" . urlencode($value); } } $cookieString = join('&', $tempString); } // Do we need to use cURL if ($this->useCurl) { // Initialize PHP cURL handle $ch = curl_init(); // GET method configuration if($this->method == 'GET') { curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, TRUE); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, FALSE); } // POST method configuration else { if(isset($queryString)) { curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $queryString); } curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, FALSE); } // Basic Authentication configuration if ($this->username && $this->password) { curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->username . ':' . $this->password); } // Custom cookie configuration if($this->useCookie && isset($cookieString)) { curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookieString); } curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE); // No need of headers curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY, FALSE); // Return body curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $this->cookiePath); // Cookie management. curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $this->timeout); // Timeout curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $this->userAgent); // Webbot name curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $this->target); // Target site curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $this->referrer); // Referer value curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, FALSE); // Minimize logs curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE); // No certificate curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, $this->redirect); // Follow redirects curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $this->maxRedirect); // Limit redirections to four curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE); // Return in string // Get the target contents $content = curl_exec($ch); $contentArray = explode("\r\n\r\n", $content); // Get the request info $status = curl_getinfo($ch); // Get the headers $resHeader = array_shift($contentArray); // Store the contents $this->result = implode($contentArray, "\r\n\r\n"); // Parse the headers $this->_parseHeaders($resHeader); // Store the error (is any) $this->_setError(curl_error($ch)); // Close PHP cURL handle curl_close($ch); } else { // Get a file pointer $filePointer = fsockopen($this->host, $this->port, $errorNumber, $errorString, $this->timeout); // We have an error if pointer is not there if (!$filePointer) { $this->_setError('Failed opening http socket connection: ' . $errorString . ' (' . $errorNumber . ')'); return FALSE; } // Set http headers with host, user-agent and content type $requestHeader = $this->method . " " . $this->path . " HTTP/1.1\r\n"; $requestHeader .= "Host: " . $urlParsed['host'] . "\r\n"; $requestHeader .= "User-Agent: " . $this->userAgent . "\r\n"; $requestHeader .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"; // Specify the custom cookies if ($this->useCookie && $cookieString != '') { $requestHeader.= "Cookie: " . $cookieString . "\r\n"; } // POST method configuration if ($this->method == "POST") { $requestHeader.= "Content-Length: " . strlen($queryString) . "\r\n"; } // Specify the referrer if ($this->referrer != '') { $requestHeader.= "Referer: " . $this->referrer . "\r\n"; } // Specify http authentication (basic) if ($this->username && $this->password) { $requestHeader.= "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($this->username . ':' . $this->password) . "\r\n"; } $requestHeader.= "Connection: close\r\n\r\n"; // POST method configuration if ($this->method == "POST") { $requestHeader .= $queryString; } // We're ready to launch fwrite($filePointer, $requestHeader); // Clean the slate $responseHeader = ''; $responseContent = ''; // 3...2...1...Launch ! do { $responseHeader .= fread($filePointer, 1); } while (!preg_match('/\\r\\n\\r\\n$/', $responseHeader)); // Parse the headers $this->_parseHeaders($responseHeader); // Do we have a 302 redirect ? if ($this->status == '302' && $this->redirect == TRUE) { if ($this->curRedirect < $this->maxRedirect) { // Let's find out the new redirect URL $newUrlParsed = parse_url($this->headers['location']); if ($newUrlParsed['host']) { $newTarget = $this->headers['location']; } else { $newTarget = $this->schema . '://' . $this->host . '/' . $this->headers['location']; } // Reset some of the properties $this->port = 0; $this->status = 0; $this->params = array(); $this->method = 'GET'; $this->referrer = $this->target; // Increase the redirect counter $this->curRedirect++; // Let's go, go, go ! $this->result = $this->execute($newTarget); } else { $this->_setError('Too many redirects.'); return FALSE; } } else { // Nope...so lets get the rest of the contents (non-chunked) if ($this->headers['transfer-encoding'] != 'chunked') { while (!feof($filePointer)) { $responseContent .= fgets($filePointer, 128); } } else { // Get the contents (chunked) while ($chunkLength = hexdec(fgets($filePointer))) { $responseContentChunk = ''; $readLength = 0; while ($readLength < $chunkLength) { $responseContentChunk .= fread($filePointer, $chunkLength - $readLength); $readLength = strlen($responseContentChunk); } $responseContent .= $responseContentChunk; fgets($filePointer); } } // Store the target contents $this->result = chop($responseContent); } } // There it is! We have it!! Return to base !!! return $this->result; } /** * Parse Headers (internal) * * Parse the response headers and store them for finding the resposne * status, redirection location, cookies, etc. * * @param string Raw header response * @return void * @access private */ function _parseHeaders($responseHeader) { // Break up the headers $headers = explode("\r\n", $responseHeader); // Clear the header array $this->_clearHeaders(); // Get resposne status if($this->status == 0) { // Oooops ! if(!eregi($match = "^http/[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+[ \t]+([0-9]+)[ \t]*(.*)\$", $headers[0], $matches)) { $this->_setError('Unexpected HTTP response status'); return FALSE; } // Gotcha! $this->status = $matches[1]; array_shift($headers); } // Prepare all the other headers foreach ($headers as $header) { // Get name and value $headerName = strtolower($this->_tokenize($header, ':')); $headerValue = trim(chop($this->_tokenize("\r\n"))); // If its already there, then add as an array. Otherwise, just keep there if(isset($this->headers[$headerName])) { if(gettype($this->headers[$headerName]) == "string") { $this->headers[$headerName] = array($this->headers[$headerName]); } $this->headers[$headerName][] = $headerValue; } else { $this->headers[$headerName] = $headerValue; } } // Save cookies if asked if ($this->saveCookie && isset($this->headers['set-cookie'])) { $this->_parseCookie(); } } /** * Clear the headers array (internal) * * @return void * @access private */ function _clearHeaders() { $this->headers = array(); } /** * Parse Cookies (internal) * * Parse the set-cookie headers from response and add them for inclusion. * * @return void * @access private */ function _parseCookie() { // Get the cookie header as array if(gettype($this->headers['set-cookie']) == "array") { $cookieHeaders = $this->headers['set-cookie']; } else { $cookieHeaders = array($this->headers['set-cookie']); } // Loop through the cookies for ($cookie = 0; $cookie < count($cookieHeaders); $cookie++) { $cookieName = trim($this->_tokenize($cookieHeaders[$cookie], "=")); $cookieValue = $this->_tokenize(";"); $urlParsed = parse_url($this->target); $domain = $urlParsed['host']; $secure = '0'; $path = "/"; $expires = ""; while(($name = trim(urldecode($this->_tokenize("=")))) != "") { $value = urldecode($this->_tokenize(";")); switch($name) { case "path" : $path = $value; break; case "domain" : $domain = $value; break; case "secure" : $secure = ($value != '') ? '1' : '0'; break; } } $this->_setCookie($cookieName, $cookieValue, $expires, $path , $domain, $secure); } } /** * Set cookie (internal) * * Populate the internal _cookies array for future inclusion in * subsequent requests. This actually validates and then populates * the object properties with a dimensional entry for cookie. * * @param string Cookie name * @param string Cookie value * @param string Cookie expire date * @param string Cookie path * @param string Cookie domain * @param string Cookie security (0 = non-secure, 1 = secure) * @return void * @access private */ function _setCookie($name, $value, $expires = "" , $path = "/" , $domain = "" , $secure = 0) { if(strlen($name) == 0) { return($this->_setError("No valid cookie name was specified.")); } if(strlen($path) == 0 || strcmp($path[0], "/")) { return($this->_setError("$path is not a valid path for setting cookie $name.")); } if($domain == "" || !strpos($domain, ".", $domain[0] == "." ? 1 : 0)) { return($this->_setError("$domain is not a valid domain for setting cookie $name.")); } $domain = strtolower($domain); if(!strcmp($domain[0], ".")) { $domain = substr($domain, 1); } $name = $this->_encodeCookie($name, true); $value = $this->_encodeCookie($value, false); $secure = intval($secure); $this->_cookies[] = array( "name" => $name, "value" => $value, "domain" => $domain, "path" => $path, "expires" => $expires, "secure" => $secure ); } /** * Encode cookie name/value (internal) * * @param string Value of cookie to encode * @param string Name of cookie to encode * @return string encoded string * @access private */ function _encodeCookie($value, $name) { return($name ? str_replace("=", "%25", $value) : str_replace(";", "%3B", $value)); } /** * Pass Cookies (internal) * * Get the cookies which are valid for the current request. Checks * domain and path to decide the return. * * @return void * @access private */ function _passCookies() { if (is_array($this->_cookies) && count($this->_cookies) > 0) { $urlParsed = parse_url($this->target); $tempCookies = array(); foreach($this->_cookies as $cookie) { if ($this->_domainMatch($urlParsed['host'], $cookie['domain']) && (0 === strpos($urlParsed['path'], $cookie['path'])) && (empty($cookie['secure']) || $urlParsed['protocol'] == 'https')) { $tempCookies[$cookie['name']][strlen($cookie['path'])] = $cookie['value']; } } // cookies with longer paths go first foreach ($tempCookies as $name => $values) { krsort($values); foreach ($values as $value) { $this->addCookie($name, $value); } } } } /** * Checks if cookie domain matches a request host (internal) * * Cookie domain can begin with a dot, it also must contain at least * two dots. * * @param string Request host * @param string Cookie domain * @return bool Match success * @access private */ function _domainMatch($requestHost, $cookieDomain) { if ('.' != $cookieDomain{0}) { return $requestHost == $cookieDomain; } elseif (substr_count($cookieDomain, '.') < 2) { return false; } else { return substr('.'. $requestHost, - strlen($cookieDomain)) == $cookieDomain; } } /** * Tokenize String (internal) * * Tokenize string for various internal usage. Omit the second parameter * to tokenize the previous string that was provided in the prior call to * the function. * * @param string The string to tokenize * @param string The seperator to use * @return string Tokenized string * @access private */ function _tokenize($string, $separator = '') { if(!strcmp($separator, '')) { $separator = $string; $string = $this->nextToken; } for($character = 0; $character < strlen($separator); $character++) { if(gettype($position = strpos($string, $separator[$character])) == "integer") { $found = (isset($found) ? min($found, $position) : $position); } } if(isset($found)) { $this->nextToken = substr($string, $found + 1); return(substr($string, 0, $found)); } else { $this->nextToken = ''; return($string); } } /** * Set error message (internal) * * @param string Error message * @return string Error message * @access private */ function _setError($error) { if ($error != '') { $this->error = $error; return $error; } } } ?> |
1. Simple Get (Facebook Application List)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | <?php // Include the Http Class include_once('class.http.php'); // Instantiate it $http = new Http(); // Get Facebook Application page $http->execute('http://www.facebook.com/apps/index.php'); // Show result page or error if occurred echo ($http->error) ? $http->error : $http->result; ?> |
2. Invoking Yahoo Term Extraction API
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | <?php // Include the Http Class include_once('class.http.php'); // Instantiate it $http = new Http(); // Set API parameters $http->addParam('appid' , 'a_really_random_yahoo_app_id'); $http->addParam('context' , 'I am happy because I bought a new car'); $http->addParam('output' , 'xml'); // Get the extracted term $http->execute('http://search.yahooapis.com/ContentAnalysisService/V1/termExtraction'); // Show result xml or error if occurred echo ($http->error) ? $http->error : $http->result; ?> |
3. Logging into Basecamp (without using cURL!)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | <?php //Include the Http Class include_once('class.http.php'); //Instantiate it $http = new Http(); //Let's not use cURL $http->useCurl(false); //POST method $http->setMethod('POST'); //POST parameters $http->addParam('user_name' , 'yourusername'); $http->addParam('password' , 'yourpassword'); //Referrer $http->setReferrer('https://yourproject.projectpath.com/login'); //Get basecamp dashboard (HTTPS) $http->execute('https://yourproject.projectpath.com/login/authenticate'); //Show result page or error if occurred echo ($http->error) ? $http->error : $http->result; ?> |
4. Getting a protected feed
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | <?php // Include the Http Class include_once('class.http.php'); // Instantiate it $http = new Http(); // Set HTTP basic authentication realms $http->setAuth('yourusername', 'yourpassword'); // Get the protected feed $http->execute('http://www.someblog.com/protected/feed.xml'); // Show result feed or error if occurred echo ($http->error) ? $http->error : $http->result; ?> |
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Pasting from MS Word how to format
If you have troubles (like me) getting data from ISO-8859-1 encoded forms where user’s copy and paste directly from word, this routine could be useful. It adds to the standard get_html_translation_table the codes of the characters usually M$ Word replacs into typed text. Otherwise those characters would never be displayed correctly in html output. For all those that use WYSIWYG editors on the web that allow pasting this is a god send as this will catch all the characters that are usually not thought of.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | <?php function get_html_translation_table_CP1252() { $trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES); $trans[chr(130)] = '‚'; // Single Low-9 Quotation Mark $trans[chr(131)] = 'ƒ'; // Latin Small Letter F With Hook $trans[chr(132)] = '„'; // Double Low-9 Quotation Mark $trans[chr(133)] = '…'; // Horizontal Ellipsis $trans[chr(134)] = '†'; // Dagger $trans[chr(135)] = '‡'; // Double Dagger $trans[chr(136)] = 'ˆ'; // Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent $trans[chr(137)] = '‰'; // Per Mille Sign $trans[chr(138)] = 'Š'; // Latin Capital Letter S With Caron $trans[chr(139)] = '‹'; // Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark $trans[chr(140)] = 'Œ '; // Latin Capital Ligature OE $trans[chr(145)] = '‘'; // Left Single Quotation Mark $trans[chr(146)] = '’'; // Right Single Quotation Mark $trans[chr(147)] = '“'; // Left Double Quotation Mark $trans[chr(148)] = '”'; // Right Double Quotation Mark $trans[chr(149)] = '•'; // Bullet $trans[chr(150)] = '–'; // En Dash $trans[chr(151)] = '—'; // Em Dash $trans[chr(152)] = '˜'; // Small Tilde $trans[chr(153)] = '™'; // Trade Mark Sign $trans[chr(154)] = 'š'; // Latin Small Letter S With Caron $trans[chr(155)] = '›'; // Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark $trans[chr(156)] = 'œ'; // Latin Small Ligature OE $trans[chr(159)] = 'Ÿ'; // Latin Capital Letter Y With Diaeresis ksort($trans); return $trans; } ?> |
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Searching for a fast replacement of the MS WORD special characters which are not covered by get_html_translation_table() , I think the following function might help someone.It replaces all types of quotes (single and double), horizontal ellipsis (…), bullet, en dash and em dash.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | <?php function clean_up($str){ $str = stripslashes($str); $str = strtr($str, get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES)); $str = str_replace( array("\x82", "\x84", "\x85", "\x91", "\x92", "\x93", "\x94", "\x95", "\x96", "\x97"), array("‚", "„", "…", "‘", "’", "“", "”", "•", "–", "—"),$str); return $str; } ?> |
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