bBlog woes
So I was playing around with a free opensource C# RSS Aggregator today and I noticed that my blog’s feed was missing quite a few items. A quick look at the source showed that whoever wrote RSS v2.0 support into bBlog was either high or just incredibly stupid, as half the elements were either missing or totally invalid.
While fixing it I came across a few other intresting things, the first being that my bBlog user didnt have an email address set, which I determined could ONLY be set through SQL commands, and that it had stored my password plaintext in the databse!
So 5 minutes later using my very minimal php knowledge I fixed the RSS feed and changed bBlog to use MD5 hashing for passwords. If it took me so little time why on earth wouldn’t the developer do it? *sigh* Fortunetly a quick check of the message forums showed that the developer is aware of the RSS 2.0 problems (that’s still no excuse for it though…) and a few people expressing intrest in MD5 passwords..
I also modified RSSConnect to use Mozilla instead of IE for it’s embeded viewer. Much nicer :).
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Categorized as Me/Rants, Technology
i find it terrible that you were forced to rewrite the code and edit stuff with pure sql commands, o what a beast, but o well and by the way “you need to render this mother faster”