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bNorton Safeweb - anyone else come across this?

DerekT-P18-Dec-19 7:46

18-Dec-19 7:46

I recently created a web-accessible intranet site for a customer (it's an internal business application, but hosted on an external shared host so has a "public" domain name). It's SSL-secured and password protected. Today a user reported a page within the site being flagged by Norton Safeweb (a browser plug-in) with the heading "Scam Insight: Personal Information Risk". It's a full-screen warning that says the site is "not well established with the Norton Community. Use caution when entering" and has a large button "Exit site" and a smaller link "Continue to site".

It seems Norton "rate" sites and the extension dynamically blocks access to sites they - Norton - have not whitelisted. There's a (very buggy) process to register as the owner of a site (which involves uploading an encoded HTML file - god knows what it contains - and then getting Norton to verify), however registration as owner does not in itself whitelist the site. You need to explicitly request assessment (which I've done) but it can take a while, and it seems that if they then deem your site "unsafe" that they will continue to block it. There's a dispute resolution process but it seems people spend a lot of time fighting inappropriate ratings from Norton.

This is unilateral censorship of the web, without explanation of what any issue is. (Other virus checkers may warn about a mismatched or expired SSL cert, for example, but the warnings are generally explicit about the problem, and there is a clear issue). Norton don't make any attempt to notify a site owner if they block access to it unless the site owner has registered. It doesn't apply in this case, but suppose I'd spent marketing dollars driving potential clients to a commerce site - I'd be losing both visitors and income.

Am I over-reacting about this? Does it seem fair? What are other people's experience with Norton SafeWeb, and does anyone know what they're even looking for??

modified 26-Dec-19 13:25pm.

Re: Norton Safeweb - anyone else come across this?

phil.o25-Dec-19 23:04

phil.o

25-Dec-19 23:04

Not being "well established with the Norton Community" may be perceived as a promise of quality, imho Smile | :)

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What is considered "Reusable CSS?"

BlowMagnum18-Dec-19 2:41

BlowMagnum

18-Dec-19 2:41

Hours of googling and endless articles is what i've gone trough, but still haven't found a direct answer.

What makes CSS Reusable? Or what is considered Reusable CSS?

As I understand it has something to do with class names, i.e - images images-footer, heading-heading-first etc.

Can anyone explain please?

Re: What is considered "Reusable CSS?"

BlowMagnum23-Dec-19 2:13

BlowMagnum

23-Dec-19 2:13

Basically answering my own question, so that this maybe helps others that came across this.

So after doing more research, I found out that by reusable CSS:

"There are some significant shortcomings that makes CSS difficult for reusability, modularity, and maintainability. Features like nested selectors can be tempting to use but lead to brittle, difficult to maintain code that doesn’t stand up well to changes in the HTML. There also isn’t a single standard to use when making organization decisions for your CSS. However there are some methodologies that are commonly used to organize CSS at scale.

1. BEM
2. SMACSS
3. OOCS"

This article explains it: - https://medium.com/@afrench53198/reusable-maintainable-and-modular-css-b0ffedf1c208[^]

When to use position on an element in CSS?

BlowMagnum17-Dec-19 5:56

BlowMagnum

17-Dec-19 5:56

I have 4 div boxes and each div box has elements inside them, which are h1 headings, p paragraphs and buttons.

All 4 div boxes are centered in the middle of the page by using:

CSS

position: relative;

After that I have added:

CSS

Top:
Left:

positions to position Divs.

My question is do all other elements inside the page, that are inside those Div boxes also need Position: Relative | Left: | Top:

Or should I just position them by using margin-top/left, padding-top/left?
Of course both methods will work, but what is the best practice?

Also, Do all elements need the:

CSS

Display: block; | inline | Inline block

Attributes ? Or is it fine to position them without these elements?

Re: When to use position on an element in CSS?

Richard Deeming17-Dec-19 6:14

Richard Deeming

17-Dec-19 6:14

If the parent element is in the correct position, you don't need to do anything to the child elements. They'll automatically be positioned within the parent element. If you position then and add top and left values to them, those values will be relative to the parent element, not the document.

position | CSS-Tricks[^]

NB: There are more modern alternatives to positioning which might suit your needs better:

CSS Flexible Box Layout - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN[^]
A Complete Guide to Flexbox | CSS-Tricks[^]

CSS Grid Layout - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN[^]
A Complete Guide to Grid | CSS-Tricks[^]

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Web Services

milo-xml16-Dec-19 6:02

milo-xml

16-Dec-19 6:02

What's the consensus on the security of using a webservice (asmx) for general database entry? Secure, not secure, better than using .NET SQLDatasource? Interested in feedback and if there's anything better that I can use.

Re: Web Services

MadMyche18-Dec-19 8:12

MadMyche

18-Dec-19 8:12

I really have not heard of anything bad about SqlDataSource, but I am not a fan of it and prefer to use code-behinds or web services of some type or another

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Re: Web Services

milo-xml18-Dec-19 8:25

milo-xml

18-Dec-19 8:25

Thanks!

How to improve speed of a website?

Member 146804835-Dec-19 23:43

Member 14680483

5-Dec-19 23:43

I want to improve my website speed

Re: How to improve speed of a website?

#realJSOP6-Dec-19 7:20

#realJSOP

6-Dec-19 7:20

Not a question.

ALL of us want to improve our web site speed.

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Re: How to improve speed of a website?

MadMyche18-Dec-19 8:13

MadMyche

18-Dec-19 8:13

Get rid of all the frameworks, images, and ads.

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Re: How to improve speed of a website?

ChristaElrod10-Mar-20 2:33

ChristaElrod

10-Mar-20 2:33

1) Enable compression.
2) Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML.
3) Reduce redirects.
4) Remove render-blocking JavaScript.
5) Leverage browser caching.
6) Improve server response time.
7) Use a content distribution network.
8) Optimize images.

How to improve speed of a website?

Member 146804835-Dec-19 23:43

Member 14680483

5-Dec-19 23:43

I want to improve my website speed it takes too much time to open

Re: How to improve speed of a website?

Member 1469538519-Dec-19 19:11

Member 14695385

19-Dec-19 19:11

Improve server response time
To improve your server response time, look for performance bottlenecks like slow database questions, slow routing, or a lack of adequate memory and fix them.

Secure A Web API

Kevin Marois4-Dec-19 9:11

Kevin Marois

4-Dec-19 9:11

I have some experience developing ASP.Net Web API's for use on a company network. But to expose it publicly, it needs to be secure. I'm guessing what I want is to control who has access to the api.

I found this article:
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/securing-aspnet-web-api--cms-26012

Since I have no experience doing this, can someone smarter than me validate this article? is this the right way?

If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.

modified 4-Dec-19 15:18pm.

Re: Secure A Web API

Mycroft Holmes4-Dec-19 13:15

Mycroft Holmes

4-Dec-19 13:15

The article is not valid for dotnet Core, it does not explain the new service configuration DI.

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Re: Secure A Web API

Kevin Marois4-Dec-19 13:34

Kevin Marois

4-Dec-19 13:34

I'm using .Net Framework

If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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SQL .bak file upload site

Member 146755902-Dec-19 7:11

Member 14675590

2-Dec-19 7:11

I am trying to design a simple webpage for our customers to upload a sql database backup file. I have a basic form but not sure where to go from here. New to this. Here is my code so far.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<img src="fieldedge_logo.jpg" width="297" height="182" alt=""/> <br>
<h1 style="color:black;" >Customer File Upload Site</h1><br><br>
<h3 style="color:black" >Please enter your Customer Name:</h3><input type="text" name="CustName"/><br><br>
<input type="file" 
	   name="file"
	   accpt=".bak"/>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Upload"/>
</form>	
	
</body>
</html>"

Re: SQL .bak file upload site

jkirkerx2-Dec-19 10:42

jkirkerx

2-Dec-19 10:42

Member 14675590 wrote:
<form action="place your page name here, or api name" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

You need an action to send it to.
An action would be server side code in which you post directly to a page, or API.
This page or API would have to accept a HTTP POST event.

Since you only posted HTML and didn't indicate your technology like PHP, ASP, I'm not able to assist any further.
But you can choose to post it back to the same page.

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Windows Service

RajaMohammed.A28-Nov-19 0:56

RajaMohammed.A

28-Nov-19 0:56

I have Created new Window Service.This Service Gets the Logs From BioMetric device.But the Service gets the last records and inserted in every time.So What Can I do?

Re: Windows Service

phil.o28-Nov-19 0:59

phil.o

28-Nov-19 0:59

You can do it differently.

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Re: Windows Service

Richard MacCutchan28-Nov-19 7:21

Richard MacCutchan

28-Nov-19 7:21

Member 14583542 wrote:
So What Can I do?

You could start by providing a proper detailed explanation of the problem. We cannot see your screen or read your hard drive.

How to remove unused CSS

Member 1466872726-Nov-19 2:22

Member 14668727

26-Nov-19 2:22

I recently ran a test on the below website:

https://www.seniority.in/daily-living-aids/adult-diapers-clp[^]

and got the below results for the website as:

PageSpeed Insights[^]

The test results told me to remove unused CSS so as to decrease the page loading time for the URL.
I was wondering if anyone would suggest me to remove the unused CSS and whether or not it would do any good to decrease the page loading time.

Any help in this regards would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to build an E-Commerce website with many such URLs and would implement that method if it's successful.

Re: How to remove unused CSS

Eddy Vluggen26-Nov-19 2:55

Eddy Vluggen

26-Nov-19 2:55

Member 14668727 wrote:
I was wondering if anyone would suggest me to remove the unused CSS and whether or not it would do any good to decrease the page loading time.

According to the analysis, saves more than a second. That makes sense, if you don't have to load stuff you don't use, you save time.

The thing that annoys me is that they can identify it, but don't offer a zip-file containing the proposed versions.

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