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Re: Looking for SSL feedback

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On 2012-06-20 08:49:44 -0600, VanguardLH said:

> Christopher Conlon wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> yaSSL is looking for feedback regarding your SSL library usage.  We've
>> put together a very short survey (10 questions) and are drawing a
>> winner for a new Apple iPad (16 GB, Wi-Fi) on August 1, 2012 from the
>> survey pool.
>> 
>> You'll find a link to the survey on the top of our download page, here:
>> http://yassl.com/yaSSL/download/downloadForm.php
>> 
>> We look forward to hearing your feedback from the survey responses and
>> using it to help enhance and direct the future of the CyaSSL embedded
>> SSL library.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Chris
> 
> A bit odd that this domain doesn't use a default home page.  If you go
> to yassl.com or www.yassl.com, there's no home page there.  Their home
> page is at http://www.yassl.com/yaSSL/Home.html.  Is there a reason they
> don't want causal web surfers to find their web site?

This is a side effect of the web design tool we are currently using for 
the yaSSL website.

> 
> Apparently they are more interested in using Google Analytics than of
> providing a text comment and URL link to their redirected home page.
> They use zero-second meta-refresh but neglect to provide a comment on
> their real home page of where is their buried home page.  Their web
> designers think everyone has meta-refresh enabled in their web browser
> (true for Google Chrome users but not for IE or Firefox).  No thanks,
> not interested in getting redirected without letting me choose to go
> somewhere other than what I specified.  Just why do they think they need
> to redirect users from the default home page of [www.]yassl.com to a
> sub-page relatively pathed at yaSSL/Home.html?
> 
> Only boobs design a home page using meta-refresh that doesn't include
> text and a URL to point at where their refresh attempts redirection.

I'll try to get a comment placed in the source where the meta-refresh 
happens notifying people where the actual home page is located.  Thanks 
for your feedback.

Best Regards,
Chris

> They also don't even bother using the <NOSCRIPT> tag in case someone
> visits who currently has scripting disabled.  Not only do they expect
> users to wander around with their fly left open (by not commenting the
> redirection when using meta-refresh) but with them also hanging out
> (expecting them to have Javascript enabled) while counting how many
> times they flop around (by using Google Analytics).

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Looking for SSL feedback Christopher Conlon <chris@yassl.com> - 2012-06-19 16:57 -0600
  Re: Looking for SSL feedback VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2012-06-20 09:49 -0500
    Re: Looking for SSL feedback Christopher Conlon <chris@yassl.com> - 2012-06-25 09:48 -0600

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