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To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Supporting MS IE (was Re: NatWest? no thanks)
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At 06:52 AM 11/1/2001, Nik Clayton wrote:

>One of your earlier examples gives the lie to this.  Smile (the bank I
>use) switched from a slow, browser dependent, crash prone Java applet to
>a CGI implementation.  They've retained (as far as I can see) all the
>functionality, and have transformed their online banking experience (for
>want of a better phrase) from something that used to be very frustrating
>to something that is much more convenient and (possibly psychologically)
>much faster.
>
>As an aside, it also lets me do clever things.  Because their interface
>is (effectively) an application where the URLs form command strings, I
>can write simple[1] Perl scripts that can go to the site, and pull down my
>current balance for me.  Which is actually quite handy.
>
>I couldn't do that before.

If they don't do good checking on the command strings, you can probably
also break in. ;-)

--Brett


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