User agent

Sean McMahon smcmahon at usgs.gov
Mon Feb 2 12:06:12 EST 2004


What would be interesting is if someone used that useragent and a supposedly
unsupported encryptian value to see if they got through the bofa site.
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From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: User agent


> This is because they're not testing for SSL. Rather, they're inferring
> based on the user agent string that's provided by the http protocol.
>
> What this actually documents is how insecure their servers are.
>
> Cheryl Homiak writes:
> > From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net>
> >
> > Yes, to make things crystal clear, it isn't just that i got through; I
got
> > a message saying my browser met their requirements. same browser I was
> > using before!!!
> >
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