Re: Secure website login tutorials?

Hi Johnc & everybody,

Just realized I made a mistake in my previous post.

I referred to Web Developer as a way to look at headers. Web Developer 
can do many useful things, but looking at the headers is not one of its 
strong points. Two Firefox plugins which do let you look at http headers 
are:

    * live http headers from livehttpheaders.mozdev.org
    * Tamper Data  https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=966

Of the two, I prefer Tamper Data, because it makes it easier to look at 
all the headers, outgoing and incoming, on a request by request basis.

Cheers,

Peter

Peter Stevens wrote:

> John -
>
>>>
>> Though I believe
>> just adding the button parameter to your submit() call may serve to
>> disambiguate in some cases as well.
>
>
> Getting the site to respond to your posts can be something of a black 
> art. Sometimes I have found it essential to use Web Developer for 
> Firefox (others have argued for using a proxy server, or even low 
> level tools like tcpdump) to examine exactly which HTTP headers are 
> being sent.
>
> If the website doesn't respond, find out what POST arguments, cookies, 
> etc, need to be set, and set exactly the same thing, and it will work.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>