Re: [Netsurf-develop] netsurf security
Christopher Bazley wrote:
On 23/05/06, John-Mark Bell <jmb202(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 May 2006, M.I. Abdullah wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use webmail to fetch email from our university server
> > (ethernet connection) and NetSurf. I am unable to login due to lack of
> > security of NetSurf. Apparently user name and password are passed
> > unscrambled which is not allowed here. Is there any secure shell or
> > similar for the excellent and very fast (on the Iyonix) browser.
> Will be
> > very grateful for any suggestion
>
> Assuming you mean https://webmail.uio.no/ then it requires SSL, which the
> full build of NetSurf has supported for a very long time. However, I
> believe SquirrelMail is known not to work with NetSurf due to the way we
> currently handle cookies. Additionally, NetSurf's cookie handling is
> completely broken at present.
I am unable to access my Staffmail (webmail) account at Edinburgh
University via NetSurf. Staffmail uses IMP rather than SquirrelMail. Is
cookie handling likely to be to blame in this case, too?
--
Clive Bonsall
C.Bonsall(a)ed.ac.uk