Here are some recipes for interpreting stream of bytes as different C types. I will keep adding more to this as I go…
Convert a byte stream (embedded in a string) into 1 byte signed integers:
“\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff”.unpack(”c*”)
=> [-4, -3, -2, -1]
Convert a byte stream (embedded in a string) into 1 byte unsigned integers:
“\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff”.unpack(”C*”)
=> [252, 253, 254, 255]
Here is the updated bookmarklet: Phishy? (tested on firefox 2.0 only!)
1. Drag this link to your bookmark. This checks if the site you are currently on is a phishing site.
2. Drag this link to your bookmark. This prompts for a URL and checks if it is a phising site.
Uses phishtank’s check URL API.
If this [...]
I wanted to use the ruby geocoder library on the windows machine, but the installation of the gem failed due to some weird error. I checked the rubyforge project page to see if someone else had a similar problems and someone actually had, but the bug was open for a long time. I decided to [...]
http://www.phishtank.com is a new service which aims to help weed out phishing URLs and email addresses using wisdom of the crowds. Users can submit emails/URLs which they suspect of fraud and others can vote if they really are fraudulent or not. I think it is a great concept. There is a REST API using which [...]
Find lattitude and longitude of any address
Yahoo just released a new beta of their maps webservice. Here is a small ruby script (inspired by Rasmus’s PHP code ) that I wrote that returns Lattitude, Longitude of the address provided…
require ‘open-uri’
require “rexml/document”
include REXML
url=’http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=yahoomap.rb&location=’
puts ‘Enter Location: ‘
address=gets
address=URI.escape(address)
result=URI(url+address).read
doc = Document.new result
r=doc.elements["/ResultSet/Result"]
print “Precision: “, r.attributes["precision"],”\n”
r.children.each { |c| print c.name, [...]
