Gordon’s Place

I’ve been doing a lot of styling recently for a couple of different projects I’m working on. By “styling”, I mean the bit where you work out an overall layout for a website and then try to get that all coded up in CSS. Anyway, it’s given me an opportunity to work out a standard [...]

One of the techniques I often have to resort to when I’m debugging a web application is to examine the HTTP protocol conversation between my browser and the server. Usually this involves installing a sniffer like Ethereal and monitoring and the re-assembling the packets as they hit the ethernet. A couple of days ago, I [...]