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July 20, 2007

Newbies, don’t upload exploits with your images!

Posted by Sarah King in Technical Discussions

Manuel Lemos from phpClasses.org has written an excellent post about about the risks when allowing users to upload images. It’s not something I’ve done alot but lets say you have a generated image such as this one - with a .php extension. I could upload it to your server and have it served from there - not much use to me because it would fail to update.

The next guy, however, might be uploading a malicious script that might take over your server, send spam etc.

Read his post here: PHP security exploit with GIF images

August 25, 2005

Grant Robinson’s cool stuff

Posted by Sarah King in New Zealand, Other Stuff

I wasn’t going to blog about Grant Robinson’s Guess the Google game - mostly because I couldn’t get a good score (ie sour grapes) but then I found he was a fellow Kiwi… More »

March 19, 2005

Saving emailed images

Posted by Sarah King in Other Stuff

Most of us get sent “funny” emails which usually aren’t, but sometimes there’s a gem within and you think “I’d like to save that image, it’s cute” but usually you never use it.

My avatar at Digitalpoint forums is one such cutie sent by the infamous “Mark and Richard” of Waiheke Island.

However it started life as an embedded image in the email. Couldn’t save it because it wasn’t an attachment, couldn’t do a save as because Microsoft Outlook wanted to convert it to a bitmap (not good for animated gifs). When I viewed the source all I got was

<IMG src=”cid:004301c5290d$0e52aca0$0401010a@D2T8GC1S”>
or
<img src=’cid:rainchecklogo’ alt=’Raincheck Logo’ />

So, after trawling through Google looking for the right way to save the images I emailed them to my gmail account where they are shown as regular images with their proper names.

Seems webmail has a use when you’re at your regular desk after all