Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Tigro Spottystripes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 don't the user agent string already tells servers about some of the browser's capabilities with the current format? the current one for my Firefox is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Ricky
One thing more to consider is that the content (but not the format) of this string is up to the viewer developer. If the viewer developer is security conscious, or has a security conscious user base, the developer can choose to use the one selected by one of the Linden Lab's main viewer versions.

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Argent Stonecutter
The only difference between "default none" and "default something generic" is that you're sending more bytes to provide the same negative information. On 2010-05-06, at 13:47, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > have the default be somthing gener

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Tigro Spottystripes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 have the default be somthing generic then On 6/5/2010 15:24, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > On 2010-05-06, at 11:51, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: >> Then you just set your user-agent string to something generic > > Yes, I'm a paranoid nut who knows to d

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Argent Stonecutter
On 2010-05-06, at 11:51, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: > Then you just set your user-agent string to something generic Yes, I'm a paranoid nut who knows to do that. I know to opt out. Most people don't. Which is why any capability like this needs to be opt-in.

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Argent Stonecutter
On 2010-05-06, at 08:59, Tateru Nino wrote: > Would something like llDetectedViewerCaps() that returned a > well-defined, yet open, capabilities string be potentially more useful > than just asking for the brand of the viewer? So long as you have to approve (or pre-approve) them, with notificati

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Tigro Spottystripes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Then you just set your user-agent string to something generic On 6/5/2010 00:28, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > On 2010-05-05, at 18:39, Tigro Spottystripes wrote: >> How so? > > The SL client is not a browser, and currently provides a stronger > priv

Re: [opensource-dev] VS2010 Error

2010-05-06 Thread Nicky Perian
and look over these patches SNOW-584 http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SNOW-584 SNOW-578 http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/attachment/37370/SNOW-578_find_vc_dir_express_2.diff From: WolfPup Lowenhar To: OpenSource Mailing List Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 7:28:29

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Erik Anderson
Are you referring to something like this, which can track browsers even if (and much easier if) they turn cookies off or tinker with their privacy settings... http://panopticlick.eff.org/ On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > On 2010-05-06, at 01:23, Ricky wrote: > > How ca

Re: [opensource-dev] VS2010 Error

2010-05-06 Thread Nicky Perian
Some of the stuff I went through may apply, if not just trash. 1. Had to install VC++Express 2005 and 2008 off root C:\ without any spaces in the folder name. 2. Added the above to $PATH. 3. Made sure VC++ was up before develop.py invoked. duh, if invoking VS tools with success. see 4 below If

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Tateru Nino
On 6/05/2010 11:32 PM, Argent Stonecutter wrote: > On 2010-05-06, at 01:23, Ricky wrote: > >> How can that be a source of correlation, unless you are using a viewer >> that has a userbase of one (yourself and your alts)? >> > When you're gathering information on someone for tracking purpos

Re: [opensource-dev] [POLICY] Configurable HTTP user-agent string

2010-05-06 Thread Argent Stonecutter
On 2010-05-06, at 01:23, Ricky wrote: > How can that be a source of correlation, unless you are using a viewer > that has a userbase of one (yourself and your alts)? When you're gathering information on someone for tracking purposes you don't need certainty. Even a viewer with a few percent of t

[opensource-dev] VS2010 Error

2010-05-06 Thread WolfPup Lowenhar
Im working on getting it so that I can use VS2010 C++ Express I have edited the develop.yp file to include vc100 but when it runs here is what I get : C:\linden\projects\2010\snowglobe\trunk\indra>python develop.py -G VC100 setting DISTCC_DIR to C:\linden\projects\2010\snowglobe\trunk\indra\.d

Re: [opensource-dev] VC90 Build and recursive dependencies back to msvcr80.dll

2010-05-06 Thread WolfPup Lowenhar
The easiest way to correct this issue is to 'snag' a copy of the 'missing' files and put them in ..\..\newview. Now here is a list of the 'missing' files: . Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest . msvcp80.dll . msvcr80.dll I hope this helps. From: opensource-dev-boun...@li