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Re: [Full-disclosure] 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@xxxxxx 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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