When testing for the correct behavior of the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set, a popular Web Application Firewall rule set, I needed to send empty Acccept- and User-Agent headers. This is relatively simple on the command line with curl: $> curl –header “User-Agent;” https://example.com Pulling this off with libcurl (pycurl in my case), was way […]
If your organization uses both Netdisco and Cisco ACI, you might be interested in one of our latest Open Source projects: nd2-worker-plugin-aci. This extension uses the APIC REST API to integrate the fabric’s switch port to MAC address and MAC address to ARP entry mappings seamlessly into the Netdisco database. Licensed under the same liberal […]
Lets say you have an Ansible role in which you create a virtual-environment using Python 3.x: – name: Install python venv and requirements environment: http_proxy: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 https_proxy: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 HTTP_PROXY: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 HTTPS_PROXY: http://proxy.domain.com:8080 pip: extra_args: ‘–trusted-host pypi.python.org’ requirements: /path/to/requirements.txt virtualenv: /path/to/venv virtualenv_command: /opt/python-3.7.0/bin/python3.7 -m venv If your requirements.txt only contains the modules you really need for […]
Recently one of our clients wanted to aggregate text data in PostgreSQL using Mondrian. Without going too deep into Mondrian details, this requires an aggregate function that’s called sum() and accepts a single text argument. While stock PostgreSQL fulfills the first criteria, the function is defined for many data types but not text. Creating some […]
I know CakePHP 3.5 is out, and before CakePHP 2.x and even before CakePHP 1.3 allowed to render JSON easily. But suppose you have a large code-base in CakePHP 1.1 you have to maintain, and suddenly someone wants JSON out of it… If upgrading your CakePHP version is possible, do it. Else, consider the code […]