Archive: security

If you are pulling your hair out trying to figure out why you are seeing a 501 error in your Google Checkout integration console I may well have the answer and solution for you.
This is the error message you will see in the integration console.
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We encountered an error trying to access your server at [...]

If you have a script, admin area or whatever that you would like to make a bit more secure, you can use the following chunk of code to do this. If you don't have SSL (HTTPS) set up then you would need to get this sorted first.
This isn't bullet proof protection, but it helps.
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//IP [...]

If your web site's secure HTTPS area includes any content such as images, javascript or whatever via standard HTTP, your visitors may well get a security warning popping up saying that the page contains secure and insecure content.
For some of your sites visitors, this rather vague and worrying statement might make them decide to abandon [...]

To get the highest possible level of server security and to protect yourself from things like XSS attacks, Edmonds Commerce highly recommend you get mod_security set up on your server.
If you ask your hosts they should be able to do this for you.
You can read all about mod_security here. If you would like any help [...]