It's a terrible pun I know but Janey and I finally got to see King Lear at Chichester's Minerva Theatre, four months after I booked the tickets and boy was it worth the wait. You know how when you watch a film and all you can think about by the end is how uncomfortable the seat is? The seats in the Minerva are not that comfy and Lear is three and a half hours long, but neither of us noticed. It was the best thing we've seen in theatre or film this year. I know David Warner, who played Lear...
We've recently had a spate of attacks on our live websites from zombie PCs trying to inject email headers into the page's viewstate. At our end, the resultant error comes back as a System.Web.HttpUnhandledException : Invalid Viewstate along with a dump of Viewstate that looks remarkably like a Multi-part MIME email message but contains invalid Base64 characters.
ViewState: gpsq@directory.coop
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0113959725=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: 1d2fb280
To: gpsq@directory.coop
bcc: jrubin3546@aol.com
From: gpsq@directory.coop
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--===============0113959725==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
vzljo
--===============0113959725==--
According to this article, this attack is more subtle than you think, but easy to thwart. If you're using .NET, it seems to be...