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Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett is an author and speaker who leads the web application security practice at OmniTI.


PHP & Web Application Security Blog

Aug 2008

Inspecting and Hacking HTTP

There are numerous reasons you might want to inspect HTTP when debugging a problem. If you've ever tried to debug problems with sessions, cookies, or redirects, I'm sure you can appreciate how hard it is without taking a close look at what's going on b...

Security 2.0 in Cincinnati

I'll be visiting Cincinnati briefly tomorrow (Thu, 21 Aug 2008) to give my talk entitled Security 2.0 at the local PHP user group, OINK-PUG. Elizabeth Naramore is kindly hosting me, so I'll be able to fraternize after the meeting, which is always the b...

End of Life for PHP 4

Today is 8/8/8, which is interesting for a few reasons, one of which is that it marks the end of PHP 4. What does this mean? It means yesterday's release of 4.4.9 is the final release of PHP 4. More information can be gleaned from the mailing list arch...

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Chris Shiflett wrote:

The author responded to this controversy and adopted a slightly more professional tone: http:/...

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funkatron wrote:

Hate to come late and just third a recommendation, but Charles has been invaluable to me when dev...

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Cicatriz wrote:

I always use Burp as a penetration testing proxy. But in Firefox, I use TamperData.

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Chris Shiflett wrote:

Thanks for the update, Andre. I didn't realize LiveHTTPHeaders altered Page Info. (For Mac use...

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Andre Gironda wrote:

I tested more add-ons with Firefox 3.0.1. Live HTTP Headers affects the Page Info (in a similar ...

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Chris Shiflett wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. These are great. Jordan, I never considered using netcat...

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