IEInternals

A look at Internet Explorer from the inside out. Note: @EricLaw left Microsoft in October 2012. This blog may be adopted by an IE team member in the future.
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    Certificate Enrollment from the Browser

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    Back in Windows XP, an ActiveX control known as XEnroll could be used from the browser to request digital certificates on the client’s behalf. Certificate authorities and others would use this control when a customer purchased a certificate for...
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    The Performance Impact of META REFRESH

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    Some sites will utilize the META REFRESH directive to perform a client-side redirection. In general, this should be avoided in favor of other redirection types, for instance, a server-side redirection (HTTP/3xx) or by using JavaScript. Using META REFRESH...
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    XDomainRequest - Restrictions, Limitations and Workarounds

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    Update : Internet Explorer 10 now supports CORS using XMLHTTPRequest . In Internet Explorer 8, the XDomainRequest object was introduced. This object allows AJAX applications to make safe cross-origin requests directly by ensuring that HTTP Responses...
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