Apr 13, 2013

WEBO Site SpeedUp licenses and WEBO Pulsar balance easy management

WEBO Pulsar is becoming a single balance increase interface for all WEBO Software products and services. Now you can not only check your website availability or load speed, register common and SaaS WEBO Site SpeedUp licenses but also manage its balance. You can transfer funds between WEBO Site SpeedUp SaaS licenses and WEBO Pulsar balance via WEBO Pulsar License Management interface, and add funds with more than 40+ payment systems.

Also current payment method with SaaS codes purchase is still working.

Apr 12, 2013

v1.6.3 released

It took several months to add new bunch of improvements and cool features to the best PHP website acceleration software - WEBO Site SpeedUp. The changes include:

  • Added options to Remove CSS and JavaScript files. Now you can simply add some broken or duplicate files - and they will be excluded from the website at all!
  • Added Marva, Twitter, Google Search Engine, Yandex Search, Yandex Search Script, Bot Scanner, Red Helper and LinkedIn to unobtrusive logic. A lot of new widgets now won't delay your page load
  • Fixed VK, Google Translate widget unobtrusive logic. Some improvements according to changes in these widgets.
  • Added SaaS key auto-request on install. Now with the product installation SaaS license will be obtained automaticcaly. Also you can you the WEBO Pulsar service to register and increase balance of any WEBO Site SpeedUp SaaS license.
  • Minor fixes and improvements regarding performance and stability.

You can safely update your WEBO Site SpeedUp installation, or download the latest version from the official website.

Apr 3, 2013

How to setup a completely headless browser with Flash support on your linux server

Environment setup

PhantomJS is a beautufil product to launch a headless web browser or your linux server. This can be used to automate a large amounts of tasks which can't be processed with raw curl.

So we have CentOS release 5.7 (Final), 32bit, and need to get completely loaded websites with Flash support. PhantomJS isn't supported Flash plugin since 1.5.0, so we need to use 1.4.1 version. All components can be installed via these guides: rhythmicalmedia.com/?p=146 and code.google.com/p/phantomjs/wiki/XvfbSetup. All should be OK (maybe except the GIT insallation - but phantomjs-1.4.1 is in source code, so no actual usage of GIT).

To start Xvfb you need to add these strings to /etc/init.d/Xvfb

# chkconfig: 345 99 50
# description: Simple graphical server

To make chkconfig work with it. You may need xfvb-run script, one can be obtained from here www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Programs_and_Editors/Tectonicus/VPS.

Flash plugin installation routine

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
yum check-update
yum -y install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper

Command line must contain option --load-plugins=yes - so the correct ones will be

export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1;DISPLAY=:0 ./phantomjs --load-plugins=yes ../examples/rasterize.js URL SCREENSHOT_FILE

or

export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1;xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" ./phantomjs --load-plugins=yes ../examples/rasterize.js URL SCREENSHOT_FILE

Also to emulate Flash support in phantomjs browser you need to add before page.open the following (at least plugins and mimeTypes - to pass all Flash detection tests correctly)

page.onInitialized = function () {
        page.evaluate(function () {
            window.navigator = {
                plugins: {length: 2, 'Shockwave Flash': {name: 'Shockwave Flash', description: 'Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602'}},
                mimeTypes: {length: 2, "application/x-shockwave-flash":
                    {description: "Shockwave Flash", suffixes: "swf", type: "application/x-shockwave-flash", enabledPlugin: {description: "Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602"}}
                },
                appCodeName: "Mozilla",
                appName: "Netscape",
                appVersion: "5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.172 Safari/537.22",
                cookieEnabled: true,
                language: "en",
                onLine: true,
                platform: "CentOS 5.7",
                product: "Gecko",
                productSub: "20030107",
                userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.172 Safari/537.22",
            };
        });
};

If you have any troubles with failed flahs plugin initialization (on screenshots) you may need to downgrade to version 10 by the following command

yum erase flash-plugin
rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-i386/atrpms/bleeding/flash-plugin-10.2-1.i386.rpm

All this makes headless PhantomJS browser work with modern Flash websites.

Mar 11, 2013

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