20 May
1999
20 May
'99
12:03 p.m.
* List: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk
James Green wrote:
Hehe. I did so anonymously through a proxy server. They don't know who I am :-)
off topic.....
We found a neat "feature" with java applets and proxies... you can get the machines OS and memory and IP address from a machine behind a proxy by asking the applet to get the information from the local machine on which it has been downloaded and then sending it to the web server ;)....
so are you safe from behind a proxy ?? well sortof ;)
Sz
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