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Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
July 21, 2009

Cloud Testing allows you to test your websites using real browsers – from the cloud.

It can be used for both Cross Browser Testing and Functional Testing.

Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Opera Google Chrome

For more information on the Cloud Testing service, visit www.cloudtesting.com.

Subscribers to the service can access the Cloud Testing customer portal is at portal.cloudtesting.com.

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Apache HTTP Server 2.3.5-alpha

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
January 28, 2010

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project have announced the release of version 2.3.5-alpha of the Apache HTTP Server. This version of Apache is principally an alpha release to test new technology and features that are incompatible or too large for the stable 2.2.x branch. This alpha release should not be presumed to be compatible with binaries built against any prior or future version.

Apache HTTP Server 2.3.5-alpha is available for download from:  http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Apache 2.3 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.2 codebase.  For an overview of new features introduced since 2.3 please see:  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html

Please see the CHANGES_2.3 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes.

This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.4.2 and APR-Util version 1.3.9 in a separate -deps tarball.  The APR libraries must be upgraded for all features of httpd to operate correctly.

This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.2 API.  Modules written for Apache 2.2 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.3, and require minimal or no source code changes.

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Selenium Documentation

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
January 28, 2010

We have uploaded some Selenium documentation to www.cloudtesting.com/selenium-docs/

You can also view it at selenium.cloudtesting.com/ and of course it available from seleniumhq.org

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Cloud Testing in Japan

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
January 21, 2010

Cloud Testing is launching in Japan soon. The service, which is in private beta at the moment extends the current service allowing subscribers to functionally test their websites using multiple real browsers.

Cloud Testing Japan is at http://www.cloudtesting.jp

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Firebug 1.5.0

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
January 19, 2010

Firebug 1.5 is Firebug 1.4 with enhancements and bug fixes. It supports Firefox 3.5 and 3.6. 1.5 release notes Among the major enhancements:

It can be downloaded from http://getfirebug.com/

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WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
December 31, 2009

WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1 has been released – see http://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/wordpress-2-9-1-release-candidate-1/

It contains 23 fixes, which can be seen at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&order=priority&milestone=2.9.1&resolution=fixed

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Adobe Air 2.0.0.10760 Beta

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
December 29, 2009

The Adobe(R) AIR(TM) runtime enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. Since applications built for Adobe AIR run on your desktop computer without a web browser, they provide all the convenience of a desktop application.

Companies like eBay and AOL are using Adobe AIR to create exciting new applications that allow you to use their services on your desktop.

In short, Adobe AIR means applications that are easier, more powerful, and more fun to use.

Be safe on the web: Adobe AIR helps ensure safe installations by requiring digital signatures on each AIR application that identify the application and its creator before you install.

It is available from http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

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Wireshark 1.3.2 Beta

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
December 27, 2009

Wireshark 1.3.2 beta is available for download at http://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto standard across many industries and educational institutions.

  • Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
  • Live capture and offline analysis
  • Standard three-pane packet browser
  • Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
  • Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
  • The most powerful display filters in the industry
  • Rich VoIP analysis
  • Read/write many different capture file formats
  • Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
  • Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platfrom)
  • Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
  • Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
  • Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

[From http://www.wireshark.org/]

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WinSCP 4.2.5

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
December 26, 2009

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.

Features:

  • Graphical user interface
  • Translated into several languages
  • Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)
  • U3 support
  • All common operations with files
  • Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol
  • Batch file scripting and command-line interface
  • Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways
  • Integrated text editor
  • Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication
  • Integrates with Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) for full support of public key authentication with SSH
  • Explorer and Commander interfaces
  • Optionally stores session information
  • Optionally supports portable operation using a configuration file in place of registry entries, suitable for operation from removable media
Version 4.2.5 is now available at http://winscp.net/eng/download.php.

Changes in this release:

  • Environment variable WINSCP_PATH pointing to path, where WinSCP executable file is located, is set on startup, so it can be used to configure portable paths relative to the WinSCP executable file.
  • It is not possible to cancel master password prompt anymore, when saving session with passwords.
  • Slash added to names of directories in search results to distinguish them from files.
  • Keyboard shortcut for finding files changed to F3 in Explorer interface.
  • Path is recorded in history after changing directory in console window.
  • Replacing characters not allowed in local file names is taken into account with synchronized browsing.
  • Merged error message and directory creation confirmation box into one, when synchronized browsing cannot find corresponding opposite directory.
  • Synchronized browsing can handle change to different directory branch.
  • Placed Use same options next time on synchronization dialog above transfer settings box to make it clear that transfer settings are not saved.
  • SSH core upgraded to the latest development snapshot of PuTTY (2008-11-22, revision 8755). It does not bring any notable change.
  • Bug fix: When master password changing was canceled, message informing about successful change appeared anyway.
  • Bug fix: No help was associated with Security tab of Preferences dialog.
  • Bug fix: Passwords in default session settings were not re-encrypted when master password was changed.
  • Bug fix: Empty session password were in rare situation encrypted using master password, what caused seemingly useless prompts for master passwords.
  • Bug fix: WinSCP did not offer to unset read-only flag when overwriting local files anymore.
  • Bug fix: Error when downloading remote files from root directory into temporary local directory.
  • Bug fix: Failure when retrying connect attempt after host is not resolved.
  • Bug fix: Incorrect calculation of DST start/end date.
  • Bug fix: Session data on Login dialog were overwritten when locale is changed.
  • Bug fix: Error when moving local directory to remote side.
  • Bug fix: Help for put scripting command incorrectly claimed that -append switch is valid for FTP protocol only.
  • Bug fix: Ampersands (&) in names of transfer settings presets and custom commands were handled inconsistently.
  • Bug fix: Excluding file from transfer did not prevent access to the file.
  • Bug fix: Error when daylight saving is not properly configured in Windows.
  • Bug fix: Shell icon for stored session in folder could not be created.
(from http://winscp.net/eng/docs/history)

Download

It can be downloaded from http://winscp.net/eng/download.php
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What happens when you post a link on Twitter?

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
December 23, 2009

When a link is put into a Twitter posting, the link gets crawled very quickly by the following agents:

Logfiles

This is the result from a web logs perspective (sorry for the formatting):

ec2-174-129-50-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:36 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “@hourlypress”
ec2-75-101-168-49.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:36 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “@hourlypress”
crawl-66-249-68-131.googlebot.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:37 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
flx1-ppp45.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:37 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)”
64.13.147.189 – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:37 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; abby/1.0; +http://www.ellerdale.com/crawler.html)”
jay.favsys.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:39 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot”
65.52.19.122 – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:39 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)”
89-212-78-95.static.t-2.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:41 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “-”
70.37.66.245 – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:42 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)”
ec2-174-129-27-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:42 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1″ 200 153 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)”
ec2-174-129-27-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:42 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)”
152.201.207.67.svwh.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:45 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html)”
152.201.207.67.svwh.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:46 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0″ 200 153 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html)”
67-220-192-215.hosted.static.webnx.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:47 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)”
flx1-ppp46.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:02 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)”
ec2-174-129-141-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:04 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)”
ec2-174-129-141-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:05 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)”
flx1-ppp47.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:09 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Me.dium/1.0 (http://me.dium.com)”
22.e.78ae.static.theplanet.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:20 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0″ 200 153 “http://portal.cloudtesting.com/” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VideoSurf_bot +http://www.videosurf.com/bot.html)”
22.e.78ae.static.theplanet.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:26 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VideoSurf_bot +http://www.videosurf.com/bot.html)”
ec2-174-129-50-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:32 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “@hourlypress”
ec2-174-129-50-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:32 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “-”
ec2-174-129-175-212.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:21:13 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3″
ec2-67-202-51-154.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:23:48 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; page-store) [email:paul at page-store.com]”
ec2-174-129-78-138.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:29:46 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; page-store) [email:paul at page-store.com]”

If you want to see it yourself, just tail your server logs and then paste a URL into Twitter.

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OneRiot Beta

Posted by Phil Smith - Cloud Testing
December 23, 2009

For those of you who have recently started seeing the OneRiot user agent string appear and wondered what it was, here is the answer:

Here is an example of searching for a recent posting we had done via Twitter, which showed up instantly (well just after we’d posted and then the bot had been in and read the content and link).


This is what you’ll see in your logs:

flx1-ppp46.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:02 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)”

You can try One Riot out at http://www.oneriot.com

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