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Message-ID: <4F6E2CB8.6080207@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:21:12 -0700
From: IA64 LOL <ia64lol@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Apple IOS security issue pre-advisory record
everything is obvious after its pointed out.
On 03/24/12 11:23, Dave wrote:
> On 24/03/2012 15:53, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:26:48 -0000, Dave said:
>
>>> Doesn't the the -e, robots=off, --page-requisites and -H wget directives enable
>>> one to collect all the necessary files that are called from a page?
>
>> No, not *all* the files, for the same reason that if you visit a page with
>> NoScript enabled, you may end up with missing content and/or big open spaces on
>> the page.
>
>> Consider a page that has Javascript on it:
>
>> todaysfile = "http://www.news-site.com/" + date_as_string;
>> document.load(todaysfile);
>
>> Unless you interpret the javascript, you don't know what URL will get loaded,
>> because yesterday and tomorrow will get a different URL. So basically,
>> if you try to pull it down with wget or similar, you will miss *all* the stuff
>> that's pulled down via Javascript (and probably via css as well - does wget
>> know how to follow CSS references?). On many modern web designs,
>> this ends up being the vast majority of the content.
>
> Thanks Valdis,
>
> Some things are pretty obvious when pointed out.
>
> Dave
>
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