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By Aleksander Aas. Friday, 10. December, 12:59

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Opera resident spec wizard Anne van Kesteren announced that due to the discovered security issues with WebSocket protocol handshake, Opera will ship Opera 11 with WebSockets disabled. Fear not though this potential security issue does not affect Flash or Java in Opera as Opera's implementation prevents abuse here.

Not sure what WebSockets are? It's a protocol that allows communication between browsers and servers. For more information check out the pretty sweet http://www.websockets.org/!

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Comments

Joonas Lehtolahti 10. December 2010, 13:40

Pretty sweet indeed, they detect Opera 11 as Opera 9.80 (in the upper right corner of the page)

Tamil 10. December 2010, 14:00

gonzoo305 10. December 2010, 14:25

really good pr)) like ope-ra

Michael Hayford Dothsey 10. December 2010, 15:36

Opra is the millennium browser

Artur „Jurgi” Jurgawka 10. December 2010, 15:53

A very drastic remedy…

Charles Schloss 10. December 2010, 17:00

Avola 10. December 2010, 17:07

Originally posted by godjonez:

Pretty sweet indeed, they detect Opera 11 as Opera 9.80 (in the upper right corner of the page)


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10. December 2010, 17:47

Originally posted by godjonez:

Pretty sweet indeed, they detect Opera 11 as Opera 9.80 (in the upper right corner of the page)


Which means they're using browser sniffing and not feature detection. Pretty sweet my arse.

d4rkn1ght 10. December 2010, 17:55

up

AndrewLow 10. December 2010, 18:48

Originally posted by lucideer:

Which means they're using browser sniffing and not feature detection. Pretty sweet my arse.



No, I tested, they check the function and then they say which version you're using, in fact, if you activate them a green ok circle is shown smile

(BTW, I tried the test and Secure WebSocket didn't work, are they supposed to be so, aren't they implement yet, right?)

10. December 2010, 19:54

Originally posted by AndrewLow:

No, I tested, they check the function and then they say which version you're using, in fact, if you activate them a green ok circle is shown


Hrmm.. interesting. You're right. Wonder why they bother with all those 116 lines of (clearly inaccurate) browser sniffing at all in that case...

Hadi 11. December 2010, 06:01

confused

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