Re: [Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?
amenex wrote: "The website uses the ASP server-side programming language, which requires a Microsoft server, and the sourcecode of the website expects Internet Explorer (IE 11)." I suggest finding out a bit more about what versions of Windows and ASP the website is running on, and what known vulnerabilities haven't been patched in those versions. I'd be very surprised if you can't find some genuine security risks in a website optimized for a browser released in 2013, based on a proprietary scripting language created by 1990s Microsoft. Come up with a few examples of how your Blackhat Evil Twin could use those vulnerabilities to catastrophically mess with your health provider. 3-5 examples should do, including things like using the website to tunnel into the internal network and copy the client database, or hijacking the Windows server to send trojans to every email address in the database, disguised as password reset requests. Send that information to the risk assessment department of the insurance company that insures your health provider, with a copy cc'd to their IT department. Tell the insurance company that the best way to permanently fix these vulnerabilities is to migrate the website to a modern infrastructure, which supports web standards in a vendor-neutral fashion. Let the inherently risk-averse nature of the insurance industry do the pestering for you. Optional step: If they show no signs of taking action, post your research here, with a strict warning that nobody should even think about posting the info anonymously on 4Chan. Yes, I've been watching too much Mr Robot ;)
Re: [Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?
2018-03-11T15:25:07+0100 ame...@amenex.com wrote: > The website uses the ASP server-side programming language, which > requires a Microsoft server, and the sourcecode of the website > expects Internet Explorer (IE 11). That seems to be an issue in development practices, I also see other websites that are programmed in ASP server-side language. I do want to point out that, as far as I know, the language they use server-side shouldn't impose problems for us. So it's really the developer human being in the chair who is causing this issue. So please contact the website owners and also the developers and suggest them to change this behavior. You can use the Action items ([1]) LibrePlanet wiki page to ask other people to do the same for the same website, so it would not be "just you/one" person complaining. [1] https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Action_items . -- - Formas de contato: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#vCard - Ativista do /software/ livre (não confundir com gratuito). Avaliador da liberdade de /software/ e de /sites/. - Membro do LibrePlanet Brasil: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:LibrePlanet_Brasil - Comunicações sociais federadas padronizadas, onde o "social" permanece independente do fornecedor. - #DeleteWhatsApp. Use o pai dele, #XMPP, federado e com padrão internacional: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/XMPP.pt - #DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram #DeleteTwitter #DeleteYouTube. Use redes sociais federadas que suportam #ActivityPub, padrão internacional, como a rede Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/ - #DeleteNetflix #CancelNetflix. Evite #DRM: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/ - Quer enviar arquivos para mim? Veja: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#Arquivos - Quer doar para mim, ou me contratar? Veja: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#Suporte - Minhas contribuições: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/User:Adfeno#Contributions
Re: [Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?
The website uses the ASP server-side programming language, which requires a Microsoft server, and the sourcecode of the website expects Internet Explorer (IE 11). I tried enabling both javascript and external javascript handling, but the page load still won't get farther than the colorful background. Afterwards, I disabled external javascript handling, of course. There are other "features" of javascript that are still turned off by default: javascript.options.asyncstack;false javascript.options.discardSystemSource;false javascript.options.dump_stack_on_debuggee_would_run;false javascript.options.mem.log;false javascript.options.mem.notify;false javascript.options.shared_memory;false javascript.options.streams;false javascript.options.strict;false javascript.options.throw_on_asmjs_validation_failure;false javascript.options.throw_on_debuggee_would_run;false I found some clues to the problem here: https://www.makeuseof.com/answers/view-aspbased-website-android-phone/ But Abrowser doesn't appear to give any choice for user agents in the about:config page Mozilla has the right approach for this website's developer (Epic Systems Corp.) to adopt: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Browser_detection_using_the_user_agent George Langford
Re: [Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?
> The website's Help Desk says, "we only do windows." Then don't use it. Call them every time you need information from them, and explain when you call that you can't use their Web interface because it doesn't work on Trisquel. Eventually, someone in charge will notice that this ridiculous policy is causing them inconvenience by having to waste a worker's time doing something that you would be perfectly willing to do yourself through a Web interface.
Re: [Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?
Third party Javascript sites may interfere if blocked. Care to be to be more specific as to the web site? A public portal or behind authentication?
[Trisquel-users] When a website expects more than javascript, what else might it be requiring ?
My Abrowser works great for just about every website I visit, but my healthcare provider's new portal is not opening for me, even with javascript enabled. I've captured the sourcecode for the portal, with its many javascript links, but I haven't a clue what to look for in that list versus the Abrowser options. When I type about:config into the address bar of Abrowser, a very long list of configuration options appears, and I can see that javascript is enabled ... but just guessing seems like a rather inefficient way of going about solving the puzzle and picking what else also needs to be enabled ... short of running upstairs and using my missus' W10 laptop. The website's Help Desk says, "we only do windows." George Langford