one big ocean

The final version of Firefox 3.6 is available now! (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html?from=getfirefox)

I was recently faced with the need to create some sort of verification measure for URLs.  Basically, public users would be able to access an internal system using a generated URL, and I needed to make sure that these links were very difficult to guess or even reverse-engineer.
I decided to use an SHA1 hash, which [...]

Part 2 of this series is about the client-side extension used to open the remote file locally.  Normally, clicking a link to a file causes the browser to prompt the user or OS for what to do with it, and then pull it down as a stream.  This behavior can sometimes be modified [...]