View Page Source not working in IE

13:55.12 - Wednesday 30th June 2004   (Link to This Entry)

AKA 'Strange IE Bug #47'. It appears that Notepad will not open to show the source code of a page - either through selecting the menu option or by right-clicking on the actual page - if you have more than 64,000 items in your web cache. The relevent Technet article advises you to clear your cache and set it lower so that fewer items (that is, fewer than 64,000) can be stored there.

It would appear that in its attempt to become the Swiss Army Knife of Web Browsers, Internet Explorer has in fact become the Swiss Cheese instead.

Free Subdomain URL Redirection

14:02.03 - Wednesday 30th June 2004   (Link to This Entry)

I've recently purchased a 3-character .net domain which I intend to use for the launch of the new URL Redirection service. Current plans are to have it funded through advertising, with the option to turn the ads off for £1 a year. I did a bit of server configuration this morning and the domain is all working spiffily - not all I have to do is get the website done.

I did make a start on the design, and will be putting things online once it reaches a usable state. I was hoping that this would be done by tonight but I received a phone call regarding another (possible) website and that may set things back a little.

Possible future plans include guestbooks mail forms and forums, but we'll have to see how that goes - bandwidth use is always my primary concern these days. At least the advertising shouldn't be a problem - TradeDoubler informs me that I only have to register the top level domain and all subdomains are automatically included.

Edit: To start with the redirection will definitely include a counter and mailform.

URL Redirection going well

23:11.33 - Wednesday 30th June 2004   (Link to This Entry)

I've been putting a few hours in on the URL Redirection project I've started, and I've reached the point whereby I can Add, Edit and Delete domains from an account. You can't actually create an account via the site yet, and I nipped in via phpMyAdmin to do it, but it's getting there.

Next step is probably to get the account creation bit done. I seriously think the hardest part - designing the related tables and handling multiple URLs per account - is done and the rest is pretty straightforward. The frame spoofing itself is already worked out in my head, and automated promotion should be a doddle, too.

The only major obstacle now is automating the mail forwarding but that may be because I haven't looked into it yet. If someone creates www.example.domain.com then it would be nice to have all mail to *@example.domain.com (and even example@domain.com) forwarded to the address in the user's account. If anyone has the faintest idea how to do this, please let me know!