Author Archives: eric

bash-ful http response codes with Apache

By eric | Published: March 3, 2009

For our recent scheduled downtime we wanted to replace the entire web site with a maintenance page. That’s not so bad. The simplest solution is to use an AliasMatch directive to the apache config: AliasMatch .* /var/www/rapleaf/maintenance.html Unfortunately this was insufficient for us because we also wanted to make it a 503: Service Unavailable http [...]

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ruby and mcrypt

By eric | Published: February 19, 2009

Usually there’s little reason to use mcrypt with ruby. Ruby’s standard OpenSSL library should cover just about all of one’s encryption/decryption needs. But recently we did need mcrypt to help us debug an encryption problem with a partner. Specifically they were encrypting with mcrypt on php and we were having trouble decrypting it. There’s very [...]

Posted in encryption, mcrypt, Ruby, Security | 1 Comment

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