Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 20:58:31 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supporting MS IE (was Re: NatWest? no thanks) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011103205742.04c02cb0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20011101135201.N99754@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20011101112107.F43740@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <15328.13403.591620.246277@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> <20011031210224.A710-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> <20011101095903.B43740@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <3BE126AF.F555A4E0@outpost.co.nz> <20011101112107.F43740@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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At 06:52 AM 11/1/2001, Nik Clayton wrote: >One of your earlier examples gives the lie to this. Smile (the bank I >use) switched from a slow, browser dependent, crash prone Java applet to >a CGI implementation. They've retained (as far as I can see) all the >functionality, and have transformed their online banking experience (for >want of a better phrase) from something that used to be very frustrating >to something that is much more convenient and (possibly psychologically) >much faster. > >As an aside, it also lets me do clever things. Because their interface >is (effectively) an application where the URLs form command strings, I >can write simple[1] Perl scripts that can go to the site, and pull down my >current balance for me. Which is actually quite handy. > >I couldn't do that before. If they don't do good checking on the command strings, you can probably also break in. ;-) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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