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Sunday, November 22, 2009 8:54 PM

Troubleshooting Authentication with Fiddler

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been exchanging mail with a webmaster (Vladimir) in Russia who reported that his customers were having problems using IE8 on Windows 7 to log into his website. His site uses HTTP Basic Authentication, so users are prompted
Posted by EricLaw | 2 Comments
Saturday, October 10, 2009 4:51 PM

Understanding DEP/NX

Despite being one of the crucial security features of modern browsers, Data Execution Prevention / No Execute (DEP/NX) is not well understood by most users, even technical experts without a security background. In this post, I’ll try to provide some insight
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Saturday, September 19, 2009 1:01 AM

Understanding Domain Names in Internet Explorer

Web browsers use domain names for a variety of purposes, but how they’re used is much more complicated than most developers realize. In this post, I’ll attempt to cover the most important aspects of this topic. Definitions When talking about “domains”
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 7:53 PM

Getting the Server's Certificate Chain from WinINET

Over the last few years, a number of folks have lamented that there's no good way to get the server's complete certificate chain from a WinINET HTTP response. That has changed with the release of the new WinINET shipping in Windows 7 / IE8. INTERNET_OPTION_SERVER_CERT_CHAIN_CONTEXT
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Monday, July 27, 2009 5:49 PM

Bugs in IE8's Lookahead Downloader

Internet Explorer has a number of features designed to render pages more quickly. One of these features is called the "lookahead downloader" and it's used to quickly scan the page as it comes in, looking for the URLs of resources which will be needed
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