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[ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: LIENSs La Rochelle UniversitÃ©
by Marcus Denker Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that the LIENSs Laboratory of the UniversitÃ© La Rochelle has joined the Consortium as an Academic Member. About - Laboratoire LIENS: https://lienss.univ-larochelle.fr - Pharo Consortium: http://consortium.pharo.org The goal of the Pharo Consortium is to allow companies and institutions to support the ongoing development and future of Pharo. Individuals can support Pharo via the Pharo Association: http://association.pharo.org/

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Hardening Zinc's Core HTTP Server
by Sven Van Caekenberghe Dec. 2, 2021

Dec. 2, 2021

Hi, Zinc HTTP Components [https://github.com/svenvc/zinc] has been a part of Pharo since version 1.3 (2011). It is an open-source framework to deal with the HTTP networking protocol, modelling all aspects involved. It also offers both client and server functionality. The reliability of the code base has improved steadily over the years, thanks to virtually all Pharo developers using it, directly or indirectly. Over the summer a number of issues that popped up after Pharo 9 was released were resolved. The robustness of the core HTTP server is one important aspect. To put this quality further to the test, I deployed two servers with the same demo Seaside application, Reddit.st, open to the internet, without any further protections. - On Amazon AWS: http://34.245.183.130:1701 - On Microsoft Azure: http://51.137.72.94:8080 The application's source code can be found at [https://github.com/svenvc/Reddit] For the technically curious there are also deploy instructions at [https://github.com/svenvc/Reddit/blob/main/DEPLOY.md] The demo app itself is described in an older article [https://medium.com/@svenvc/reddit-st-in-10-cool-pharo-classes-1b5327ca0740] Note that, by definition, there is no HTTPS/TLS variant. If you manage to break this server with (a) malicious request(s) in such a way that you can explain what you did for others to confirm your approach, you not only help me/us improve the code, but earn eternal fame as well ;-) Sven PS: I hope I won't regret this, I am looking for constructive criticism. -- Sven Van Caekenberghe Proudly supporting Pharo http://pharo.org http://association.pharo.org http://consortium.pharo.org

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