I was using Firefox on some machines, but recently moved to Chrome as a
political statement, not because I love Google but rather because I wanted
to show my dissatisfaction with Firefox's political
correctness/censorship<http://readwrite.com/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-mozilla-resigns-ceo#awesm=~oEX2WzjEhsumsR>.
(And in case you were wondering, I do support marriage equality but even
more than that I support peoples right to disagree with me. Agree?)


On 22 May 2014 11:43, Bec Carter <[email protected]> wrote:

> This thread got me wondering if anybody here actually uses a browser other
> than Chrome. By *use* I mean to personally browse and not to just test
> sites across different browsers. Even on my now dead Macbook I used Chrome
> and just find it nicer than Safari or IE.
> Just curious :-)
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:10 PM, noonie <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> Different browsers different behaviours and now I know why. Different
>> sites may be different user behaviours and I suspect I know why.
>>
>> Now all I have to figure out is how to "make it go away" because,
>> fundamentally, that's all that users want ;-)
>>
>> --
>> noonie
>> On 21/05/2014 3:54 PM, "Ken Schaefer" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  So you’re using different browsers to access the different sites?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What if you swap the browsers around? Does the behaviour follow the
>>> browser? Or stay with the website? That will probably give you a clue as to
>>> whether it’s a browser, proxy or website issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *noonie
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 21 May 2014 3:29 PM
>>> *To:* ozDotNet
>>> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Copy & Paste from protected Web page
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Ken,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> IE and Chrome behave differently and, as the clipboard is involved here,
>>> things get even murkier. We're warming up WireShark as I write ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> noonie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 May 2014 13:48, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I’d start by finding out whether the challenge is coming from the
>>> proxy server or not.
>>>
>>> Packet capture on the proxy server can probably help you here, as it
>>> should show what the proxy server is doing vs. what is coming directly from
>>> the web server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *noonie
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 20 May 2014 8:22 AM
>>> *To:* ozDotNet
>>> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Copy & Paste from protected Web page
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Probably not IE as the user agent string is slightly different ending in
>>> MSOffice 12 which indicates Outlook or Word. It identifies itself as an
>>> earlier version of IE tahn the version installed as the browser.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> noonie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 May 2014 19:22, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I would assume word is using the IE to grad the urls, hence if you
>>> have logged into the website using IE, then word may be aware of this?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just my suggestion…not sure how true it is!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *noonie
>>> *Sent:* Monday, 19 May 2014 6:20 PM
>>> *To:* ozDotNet
>>> *Subject:* [OT] Copy & Paste from protected Web page
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out an issue that a user has reported. When they
>>> copy text from a Web page into Microsoft Word they are prompted for
>>> credentials on one site but not on another, similarly configured, site.
>>>
>>> Both sites are basic auth over https and both are ASP.net apps with very
>>> minor differences. The major differences are in their proxy configurations.
>>> I can understand why credentials are required but not why they seem to be
>>> automatically offered in one case but not in the other.
>>>
>>> Where can I find some documentation about how Windows and Office
>>> conspire together to grab CSS files so Word can decide what text formatting
>>> to offer?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> noonie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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