- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:51:25 +0100
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: public-appformats@w3.org
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:40:54 +0100, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: >> When you use curl you will not be able to include the auth headers or >> cookies of other users. You will also not be able to use curl to >> connect to websites inside firewalls. > > But Anne was concerned about existing sites, viz a viz his Amazon > example. So which is it? curl is not able to target any sites using cookie information or HTTP authentication from the end user. (Unless the end user did it himself, but in that case there's no issue.) curl is also not able to target intranet servers. Both are an issue. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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