W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > public-xg-webid@w3.org > February 2011

Anonymity in the browser - was: nasty nasty bug in chrome

From: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:37:19 +0100
Message-Id: <8386F25A-4D70-4F1A-AC0C-DCFDA0CED19C@bblfish.net>
To: nathan <nathan@webr3.org>, WebID XG <public-xg-webid@w3.org>

On 12 Feb 2011, at 00:06, Nathan wrote:

> Henry Story wrote:
>> On 9 Feb 2011, at 02:21, Nathan wrote:
>>> It appears, that if you webid auth in chrome, them open a new incognito window, then go to the same website again, it'll automatically send your cert and auth you w/o asking..
>> Did you report that bug? It's worth doing it. They are very responsive. Just send us the bug ID here, and we can all vote on it :-)
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72772
> 
> Sorry it took a while.

Excellent work! Thanks for bringing the issue up. I added a comment there
pointing them to this thread and to ISSUE-14: "WebID and Browsers"

Henry

> 
> Best,
> 
> Nathan

Social Web Architect
http://bblfish.net/
Received on Saturday, 12 February 2011 11:37:56 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Friday, 17 January 2020 19:39:41 UTC