Simon Willison’s Weblog

Early Day Motion to support Bletchley Park Museum. Time to fire up WriteToThem.com and drop your MP a friendly note of encouragement.

# 1:56 pm / bletchleypark, edparsons, politics

Reverse HTTP Demo (via) This is a bit of a brain teaser—a web server running in JavaScript in your browser which uses long polling comet to respond to incoming HTTP requests channelled through a “Reverse HTTP” proxy.

# 3:54 pm / comet, javascript, reversehttp

moddims (via) Apache 2 module which exposes ImageMagick as a URL-driven service, allowing you to request an image from a whitelisted host server and resize, thumbnail or alter the quality of it.

# 6:18 pm / apache, imagemagick, images, moddims, resizing, thumbnails