Archive for July 2006
I hadn’t realised it until just now but July has actually been a fairly busy month. Every weekend I’ve been doing something or going somewhere, and often during the week as well.
You can see what I’ve actually been doing by having a peek at the 135 pictures I’ve just uploaded to the gallery. Yes, 135! That’s what made me realise it had been a busy month.
It’s also the month that the picture counter on my camera passed one thousand. Over a thousand pictures since I got the camera on Christmas day, I hate to think what the cost would be if they were 35mm film pictures.
Here I am sat working on the computer with all the windows open because of the warm weather, and all I can smell is chocolate from the Nestle factory round the corner!
Yahoo! uses protection, as does anyone who uses vBulletin. I am of course talking about protecting your web applications and it’s users, and more specifically the logon processes for your application.
You could use SSL logins, but on a shared host this isn’t an option. One option left to you is to let the usernames and passwords flow over the internet in plain text. With a little javascript it is possible to put some security into the process. The rest of this post is about implementing this. Don’t worry if you have javascript disabled, it falls back to the original method of sending it in plain text.
It’s my birthday today. Happy birthday to me! 
