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Re: M-209 for sale on EBay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Johnson)
Mon Oct 28 16:56:37 2002
In-Reply-To: <200210281801.g9SI1Ng02813@gungnir.fnal.gov>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 14:55:10 -0700
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
From: "Richard Johnson" <rdump@river.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
At 12:01 -0600 on 2002-10-28, Matt Crawford wrote:
>> There's an M-209 for sale on EBay:
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=726499988
>>
>> Interestingly enough, some people are blocked "for legal reasons" from
>> getting to it.
>
> Even more interestingly, connecting from a Department of Energy
> network IP address with a .gov domain name gets me a message about
> "blocked due to legal restrictions in your home country."
Looks like it's cookie sensitivity on eBay's part. They screwed up.
Works:
Lynx 2.8.4rel.1
Links 0.96
Mozilla 1.1
Netscape 6.2.3
Internet Explorer 5.2
Doesn't work:
OmniWeb 4.1
The difference, other than the browser ID string? My OmniWeb cookie db has
3 prefs cookies for eBay. The other browsers do not have prefs cookies
stored.
The eBay login referenced by those cookies in OmniWeb lists a US postal
address complete with zip code. Ergo, by typical eBay logic, I am not
allowed to view the item.
Richard
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