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Re: From the chicago police website

From Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com>
Newsgroups chi.internet
Subject Re: From the chicago police website
Date 2016-06-22 04:42 +0000
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:
> On Monday, June 20, 2016 at 6:43:19 PM UTC-5, Cydrome Leader wrote:
>> jamie <jamie@ftupet.com> wrote:
>> > In article <slrnnmdgun.3kl.glg@ftupet.ftupet.com>,
>> > Geoff Gass  <glg@tanzenmb.com> wrote:
>> >>Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
>> >>> Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> LOL.  Isn't there a single IT guy at CPD who isn't sleeping?
>> >>>> Fat chance I ever use IE on the open Intertubes.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> For what it's worth, on the mac, Firefox does exactly the same thing but
>> >>> Safari (the default mac browser) is fine.
>> >>>
>> >>> What it seems like is Firefox is picking up somewhere it's supposed to be
>> >>> a secure connection (https) but isn't. And it's not.
>> >>>
>> >>> Only idea, but it should trip up other browsers, is if they had a cert for
>> >>> ssl connects and quit using it. Like on webmail.ripco.com, you can just enter
>> >>> that or with the http:// bit, but once it connects, it does a automatic
>> >>> redirect to the secure port (https://).
>> >>>
>> >>> Else it's some feature of Firefox expecting ssl connections anywhere, which
>> >>> sounds as stupid as something they would try to do. They seem to like to
>> >>> tinker with it that way, usually backing it off later.
>> >>
>> >>http://portal.chicagopolice.org is redirecting to
>> >>https://portal.chicagopolice.org, it is not firefox trying to do that.  In IE,
>> >>I eventually get redirected to http://home.chicagopolice.org/.  I'm not sure
>> >>what FF doesn't like about the https site, it's TLS 1.0, which is bad, but I
>> >>don't think FF outright blocks it.  Where did Mark get the link to portal?
>> > 
>> > FWIW, IE is the official browser of the City of Chicago.  :(
>> 
>> At least the city made one correct IT decision.
> 
> Any good web designer knows to make your code work
> on only a single browser.  The Intertubes is all about
> exclusivity.  I wonder what goon at City Hall got
> some kind of kick back.  Maybe they could be bought

You really think somebody got a kickback for using the browser that comes 
with windows and is a part of the install  image the city no doubt already 
uses?

Are you really that stupid? 

> with a free vacation and best hookers Seatlle has to offer.
> 
> Or maybe they're just lazy fucks.  I'll stick with
> Occam's Razor on this.

I'd love to see the quality software you churn out. I'm sure NetIQ is 
just banging at your door to buy you out.

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RE: From the chicago police website nobody@nowhere.invalid (Will Renkel) - 2016-06-18 10:58 +0000
  Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-18 12:17 -0700
    Re: From the chicago police website Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-06-19 11:13 +0000
      Re: From the chicago police website Geoff Gass <glg@tanzenmb.com> - 2016-06-19 16:09 +0000
        Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-19 11:36 -0700
        Re: From the chicago police website jamie@ftupet.com (jamie) - 2016-06-20 00:16 +0000
          Re: From the chicago police website barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> - 2016-06-20 17:52 -0500
          Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-20 23:43 +0000
            Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-20 17:25 -0700
              Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 04:42 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 10:40 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 19:45 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 13:36 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-22 22:36 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 16:08 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-06-22 19:03 -0500
                Re: From the chicago police website Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> - 2016-06-22 17:38 -0700
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-23 06:02 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-06-23 10:49 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> - 2016-06-23 20:44 +0000
                Re: From the chicago police website smr <me@shawnritchie.com> - 2016-06-22 19:01 -0500

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