[159614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RIPE cookies [was]: Dreamhost hijacking my prefix...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Jan 16 14:12:47 2013
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:12:21 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- jbond@ripe.net wrote:
From: john <jbond@ripe.net>
----- On 1/11/13 8:28 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: -----
> RIPE needs to fix on their web site:
> "Please turn on the cookies on your browser to view this site."
> It doesn't have to be this way...
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I took a look at this site and unfortunately the use of cookies is very
ingrained into the code. Removing the requirement breaks all
functionality of www.ris.ripe.net and changing the functionality would
require a rewrite of the site. Our intention is that
http://stat.ripe.net/ will replace all functionality currently under
www.ris.ripe.net. If RIPEstat doesn't provide the functionality you are
looking for, please request it by emailing us at stat@ripe.net.
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Hi john,
First, thank you for responding. Second, what a bummer that RIPE's
code was written that way in the first place. If it's done that
way in stat.ripe.net as well, I (and others who are security-minded)
will never get to use your site. Maybe give "brian at merit" a holler
before writing stat.ripe.net in such a way that one MUST allow cookies
just to look at the site. Maybe it's too late already. :-( I haven't
looked, yet...
scott
