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Hamlet D'Arcy is behind the times: The Online Merchant of Venice

Ah, what a wonderful cautionary tale, understood even by us poor liberal arts majors...now the question is, does the Fox of the Fire have the same vulnerability, or does it reject SSL_NULL messages?

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Hamlet D'Arcy said…
Two things to note:

1. Firefox (and IE) now have this fixed (to my knowledge).

2. Orbitz.com is a good web site (written in Lisp!) and was used for no other reason than the ability to make a pun out of its name.

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