Test post from WordPress iPhone app

Yay

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This blog is now running WordPress 2.5. Haven’t played with it too much. First impression, the new look of the admin screen is pretty ugly to me.

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WordPress 2.3.3 has been released.

$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3
U    wp-includes/gettext.php
U    wp-includes/version.php
U    wp-includes/pluggable.php
C    xmlrpc.php
U    wp-admin/install-helper.php
Updated to revision 6736.

This release has security fixes so I suggest you do the same ASAP if you’re a WordPress user.

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For some time, I had built up to a PageRank of 6, according to http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/.

Then, I had someone deface my site with spam links hidden inside HTML comments and Google picked up on that and flatlisted me and my PageRank went to 0. I of course fixed the defacement and contacted Google to let them know, but my PageRank stayed at 0 for several months.

I just noticed that it has edged up to 3, so that’s good.

Hey buddy, can you spare a link?

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You had me at “security fixes”.

svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.2

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Just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1.

$ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.1
...
Updated to revision 6294.

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Ever wonder how applications talk to HTTP proxies? It’s simple really (like the rest of HTTP) – there’s a simple HTTP request method called CONNECT. It’s easily illustrated with a quick session of netcat:

$ nc -v proxy.foobar.com 3128
proxy.foobar.com [10.xx.xx.xxx] 3128 (?) open : Operation now in progress
CONNECT marc-abramowitz.com:80 HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.0 200 Connection established

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: marc-abramowitz.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:02:34 GMT
.........

Nothing magical.

The above process can be done with a program, of course. The one I am most familiar with is called corkscrew. With it you can do things like:

$ corkscrew proxy.foobar.com 3128 marc-abramowitz.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: marc-abramowitz.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:03:29 GMT
...

The corkscrew program is very useful in particular with the ProxyCommand config directive in OpenSSH as discussed in my post on using SSH though an HTTP proxy.

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