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Update to ‘Embedded Web Video in a Standards-Compliant, Accessible, and Successful Way’


With the release of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player version 11, the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol is officially no longer supported. (Except, of course, for the confusing/amusing footnote on that page that says ‘mms://’ URIs are “highly recommended” as a protocol rollover URL — only Microsoft can at the same time make something deprecated and highly recommended.) As Ryan Eby noted earlier this year, those generating ASX files for Windows Media Player need to adjust their scripts.

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2007 02 21 Comments (2)

Script for Testing HTTP Referer Headers


I’ve just had the third occasion where in support of a user I suspect that user has a piece of software which is blocking or modifying the HTTP “referrer” header that comes normally with most interactions between a web browser and a web server. Rather than asking that user to run a complicated test I found elsewhere on the web, I whipped up a little ditty that tests for this with (hopefully) non-technical words and advice. At the bottom of this post is the source code for the script; feel free to take it and modify it for your own circumstances.

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2006 09 05 Comments (0)
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