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• PHP: Determine the full URL of the current page

  Posted on Mon October 16, 2017 by Jeroen Derks There have been 0 comments

  This article originally appeared on www.phpfreelancer.org.

  

  Sometimes you want to know in a simple PHP script what the current URL (the URL through which the PHP script is called) is. When I was looking for a solution without reinventing the wheel, I actually found no piece of PHP code that met my expectations. So let me try it as well.

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• What's my IP address? - Now easy to remember curl command line++

  Posted on Tue October 3, 2017 by Jeroen Derks There have been 0 comments

  This article originally appeared on www.phpfreelancer.org.

  

  Many times when I checking for example access or error logs, I need to know my public or external IP address (these days most people by now should be using NAT at home because their Internet access router configures it out of the box so that they cannot simply use ifconfig or ipconfig to see which IP address is in use).

  To do so I would have more or less two options:

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• Automatically upgrade all PHPMailer installs on your server

  Posted on Thu December 29, 2016 by Jeroen Derks There have been 0 comments

  

  In the last week two critical issues where discovered by Dawid Golunski in PHPMailer, a library to facilitate sending email messages using PHP. The disclosures can be found here:

  • CVE-2016-10033 - PHPMailer < 5.2.18 Remote Code Execution
  • CVE-2016-10045 - PHPMailer < 5.2.20 Remote Code Execution (0day Patch Bypass/exploit)

  You can read PHPMailer's response about it in the PHPMailer Wiki article "About the CVE 2016 10033 and CVE 2016 10045 vulnerabilities". Read more...