Re: Poodle patches really "breaking" anything?

In defense of the folks in Austin and to commiserate a bit...we deploy website updates on a regular basis and we test our stuff on the four "majors" at as many release levels as we can get. Then add the OS possibilities and versions multiplied by the "majors" (and minors) and factor in the possible virus scanning plugins, security plugins and a host of other browser "tweaks" that folks make and I begin to marvel at how this stuff works at all.

Granted, in a IBM i shop the device connecting to the HMC should be dedicated (more or less) and therefore more "vanilla" in settings but it can be maddeningly difficult to figure out what quirk caused by a changed setting is preventing some HTML/CSS component from working correctly. I wish every browser had a "compare to baseline" feature that would show EXACTLY which settings have been changed from the default installation....

We changed our proxy to reject SSLv3 connection requests and got a handful of support requests... XP users and a few that had disabled the TLS protocols (for some unknown reason) .....

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 12/10/2014 8:12 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

That is a problem I admit, and the one place I do tend to use Firefox. What
puzzles me is how the fine folks in Austin that build the HMC code can't
seem to get the four big browsers to work on the HMC. Call in the
problem, and they will tell you it works as designed. Designed by whom? I
think they just don't want to admit they botched it up, again......

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects