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Using Meddler to Simulate Web Traffic

As mentioned back in July , IE8’s new lookahead downloader has a number of bugs which cause it to issue incorrect speculative download requests. The “BASE Bug” caused the speculative downloader to only respect the <BASE> element for the first speculatively

The User-Agent String: Use and Abuse

When I first joined the IE team five years ago, I became responsible for the User-Agent string. While I’ve owned significantly more “important” features over the years, on a byte-for-byte basis, few have proved as complicated as the “simple” UA string.

Internet Explorer Cannot Download https://something

Earlier today, I was asked to troubleshoot a secure site where file downloads were always failing. Having seen this problem many times often over the years, I immediately suspected that the web developer wasn’t aware that if a user tries to download *
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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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Internet Explorer Cookie Internals (FAQ)

Over the five years I’ve worked on Internet Explorer, I’ve probably seen more questions from the community about HTTP cookies than on any other topic. Cookies are an integral component of most websites in use today, and hence problems or unexpected behaviors
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Notes on Proxy AutoConfiguration Scripts

I had someone ask me for help writing a Proxy AutoConfiguration script today. PAC files are basically simple JavaScript files that expose one function, FindProxyForURL(url, host) . The function returns a string containing a list of one or more proxies
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