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This site had been experiencing horrible lag over the last few days. I sat down lastnight and got it all figured out. First, I thought it must somehow be related to the new apache httpd server I installed, not the case. After determining that it wasn’t an apache config problem or something, I started into WordPress. The lag didn’t come from WordPress itself, but a plugin I was using. Said plugin was wp-shortstat.
After disabling wp-shortstat, the page loads much quicker without the lag when loading the end of the page. It’s almost like my web server would get to the bottom of the page and then just stop sending the rest of the data to the browser. The browser would get to the very end of the page and just stop loading. If I’d view the rendered HTML in IE or FireFox, the the trailing “body” and “html” tags would be missing. It’s all better now though.
I also downloaded Flock lastnight at home. It’s pretty interesting, all sorts of feature for blogs and other services like del.icio.us. Flock is built on FireFox 1.0. And if you’d like a Wordpress.com blog, download flock and you can get one without an invite (H/T IO ERROR).
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The Apache web server version 2.0.55 was released today. The previous 2.0 release was made back in April of this year. 2.0.55 fixes a flaw that was discussed on Slashdot in July. It’s mentioned in their official 2.0.55 announcement.
If a request contains both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length headers, remove the Content-Length.
proxy_http: Correctly handle the Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length request headers. Discard the request Content-Length whenever chunked T-E is used, always passing one of either C-L or T-E chunked whenever the request includes a request body.
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Google came out with a new service last week called Google Sitemap. It’s mostly a tool for webmasters. You can submit your sitemap to Google so their bot doesn’t have to crawl your pages as much. This way Google can know the entire structure of a website without having to crawl it.
What’s could be better than that? Well, a Google Sitemap generator plugin for WordPress of course. The best part of the plugin is the fact that it updates the sitemap xml file every time you change or publish a post. It also has the ability to generate a new sitemap xml file without editing or publishing a post. You can also specify a filename to save the sitemap xml file as. The official site for the plugin has a screenshot you can see. I saw this a day ago or so on Blogging Pro.
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