S.Wojnowski - web development

Helping make the web work for everyone.

Welcome to my website. My name is Sylwester Wojnowski. I am a full stack web developer who started programming for the internet in 1998. As a web developer I plan, design and implement intereactive internet technologies and applications for individuals and organisations.

Web Developer Zone

Web Developer Zone is a code first section devoted to tools and techniques used in web development. Thematically, the main focus here is on PHP, Linux, BASH, JavaScript and a little bit of MySQL and Python.

Pick of the week

Dissecting e-mail spamming hack based on PHP CGI

Dissecting e-mail spamming hack based on PHP CGI

24 Jul 2020 18:27:44


Article about how vulnerable PHP CGI setups can become a source of e-mail spam.


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Recent

Number of primes less than N

04 Feb 2020 20:33:40

Number of primes less than N

In this article I look at how to find all prime numbers below a certain positive number N, as well as their sum. We do not know how primes are distributed. There is no function, which reliably finds all primes less then a large natural number. However, we do known an algorithm, ...

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Symmetric and asymmetric - key encryption with gpg and gpg-zip

29 Jun 2018 19:38:09

Symmetric and asymmetric - key encryption with gpg and gpg-zip

We have stored more and more data, sometimes logins, passwords and whole databases, by popular cloud storage services today. On one hand, keeping files with them seems like a good idea. You get access to your files on demand, on any device you connect to service with, from ...

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Builidng and compressing archives with tar and process substitution

21 Jun 2018 18:53:34

Builidng and compressing archives with tar and process substitution

To large degree this article is a result of my observations on people's struggles related to compressing files, possibly also directories, with tar command line utility efficiently and safely. Most of the time using tar on its own causes no difficulty. Problems crop up ...

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Dissecting Mister Spy Bot website hack

27 Apr 2018 14:14:09

Dissecting Mister Spy Bot website hack

If you are a website admin or owner you probably scan your HTTP server's logs in search of interesting, or perhaps dangerous, entries from time to time. When doing so, you might have come across a GET or POST HTTP request (or some its variation) which looks like the one ...

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SWWW

S.Wojnowski - web developer

SWWW is my place on the web where I write on stuff related to web development. Main focus here is on my own programs and scripts, but also websites I have developed over years or helped develop, improve or maintain. In the Web Developer Zone I take a closer look at various solutions related to web development and computer programming.

If you find any of my projects interesting, useful or would like to know more on it, do let me know. This website has a contact form. Altenatively, you can leave a comment under an article on the blog.

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I am based in Wakefield, UK, but always happy to consider remote work opportunities.

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