Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Alex Daniloff <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for all the replies.
Now I have another question. 
Is it possible to read client browser timestamp via 
CGI environmental variables or in any other way
without using Javascript?

Thanks in advance for any answers,

Alex

On Tuesday March 21 2006 09:13, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > Hello SuSE folkz,
> > I went to this web site:
> > http://greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-timestamp.htm
> >
> > and saw that they somehow read the time stamp right from
> > my PC.
> > I'm behind the firewall and all ports are in stealth mode.
> > I wonder, how they do this. Is it a part of TCP/IP protocol or
> > environmental variable of my browser?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Javascript.
>
> That pathetic site is written in MS Front Page (I can't believe anybody
> still uses that POS.) and uses a simple JavaScript to get your browser's
> current time on the client side.
>
> If you disable JavaScript, you get a blank area where the time was
> previously listed.  (Silly FP authors didn't have a graceful degridation.)
>
> Remember, that you should always have a browser with JavaScript disabled
> to try sites like this that you get in emails. (This in addition to
> running through a proxy.)
>
> --
> kai ponte
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