Ben Huson

If you have a Flash site which loads dynamically generated XML file using SSL, you may have experienced this problem.

Loading XML files in Flash over an SSL Connection fails in Internet Explorer if the Pragma:no-cache or Cache-control:no-cache HTTP headers are set on the XML file. By default, all dynamically generated files are returned by the server with the Pragma:no-cache header so that they are not cached by the browser.

To ensure that Flash loads the XML successfully, you should use the following function in PHP near the top of your code:

session_cache_limiter('private_no_expire');

Since last Friday (25th January 2008), we have been experiencing problems with some third-party shopping carts integrated with PayPal, in particular osCommerce and WordPress E-Commerce. The error message that occurs is:

“Unable to process payment. Please contact the merchant as the shipping address provided by the merchant is invalid, and the merchant has requested that your order must be shipped to that address.”

PayPal’s technical team are working to resolve the issue…

For more information see the following links:

PayPal Developer Community Blog
PayPal Developer Community Forum
WP e-Commerce Forums

You’ve put your Google Analytics tracking code into all pages of your web site, but then what happens when you want to test your site locally or at a diffent URL where you host a development environment?

You need to make sure your Analytics profile is set to only track pages when there are hosted at your domain and not while you are testing and developing your site. To do this you need to set up filters within your Analytics account.

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Check out the site Susie and I created for Deirdre Cartwright, guitarist and composer.

The site is powered by WordPress so that Deirdre can update it with news of gigs and events. You can also download tracks from her albums!

Keep an eye out for her new album later this year…

www.deirdrecartwright.com

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We’ve just given Ben Fogle’s web site a re-vamp.

www.benfogle.com

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