Dependency Walker: missing dlls

These are API-sets – essentially, an extra level of call indirection introduced gradually since windows 7. Dependency walker development seemingly halted long before that, and it can’t handle API sets properly. So these are all false alarms and nothing to worry about. You’re not missing anything. Also see On API-MS-WIN-XXXXX.DLL, and Other Dependency Walker Glitches. … Read more

Determining Referer in PHP

The REFERER is sent by the client’s browser as part of the HTTP protocol, and is therefore unreliable indeed. It might not be there, it might be forged, you just can’t trust it if it’s for security reasons. If you want to verify if a request is coming from your site, well you can’t, but … Read more

word-wrap break-word does not work in this example

Mozilla Firefox solution Add: to the style of your td. Webkit based browsers (Google Chrome, Safari, …) solution Add: to the style of your td. Note: Mind that, as for now, break-word is not part of the standard specification for webkit; therefore, you might be interested in employing the break-all instead. This alternative value provides … Read more

meaning of &variable (passed to function)

func being some arbitrary user defined function It couldn’t be “arbitrary” – it must take a pointer to int or a void* in order for the call to be legal. This ampersand is the “take address” operator. It passes func the address of a, so that the func could, for example, modify it: If your … Read more

Postman Resolving “Invalid CORS request” for a POST Request

I’ve just started using Postman to test an API I am integrating to. I have the following error that keeps showing up Invalid CORS request Note the following: The API uses Bearer token authentication(OAuth2). I have this working without a problem. I do get the bearer token successfully, assign it to an Environment variable and … Read more

clearing a vector of pointers [duplicate]

Yes, the code has a memory leak unless you delete the pointers. If the foo class owns the pointers, it is its responsibility to delete them. You should do this before clearing the vector, otherwise you lose the handle to the memory you need to de-allocate. You could avoid the memory management issue altogether by … Read more

Python: Continuing to next iteration in outer loop

In a general case, when you have multiple levels of looping and break does not work for you (because you want to continue one of the upper loops, not the one right above the current one), you can do one of the following Refactor the loops you want to escape from into a function The … Read more