Quote:
Originally Posted by jelv
Yes they will:
They have a contract with BT.
The Phorm supplied equipment will reside on BT's site(s) and there's a funny arrangement whereby it's owned by BT (but BT have limited access to the equipment).
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We've yet to clarify even that - more (deliberate?) BT vagueness - the current BT Webwise site where ALL the info on Webwise is kept, and where the various cookies appeared from briefly (by mistake of course) is NOT on bt.com but on a different redirecting page at webwise.bt.com which is hosted by FASTHOSTS (and has been down recently when FASTHOSTS went down - its the budget end of the hosting market). At the moment it sets a "session" cookie which does disappear at the end of the session. A few weeks ago it was doing less predictable cookie stuff for which BT "apologised".
Name: PHPSESSID
Content: 6eb1b36ac1a808a682d5c741990b14aa
Host:
www.webwise.bt.com
Path: /
Send For: Any type of connection
Expires: at end of session
Do the lookups and see - webwise.bt.com WHOIS lookup appears kosher, but the reverse IP lookups on the resultant IP's
88.208.250.85
88.208.248.102
88.208.250.66
show the FASTHOSTS details.
They seem to have got rid of the IP address that resolved back to Phorm, within the last week. So the pressure is getting to them!
They do pretend it's on bt.com in some of their links which put
http://bt.com/webwise/ in your browser - but after a lengthy pause and a lot of status bar activity, it ends up at
http://www.webwise.bt.com/webwise/index.php and that doesn't resolve to a BT host.
I've been asking BT to put their Webwise FAQ on pages hosted on their own domain and they said to me they would do it (a week ago) but they haven't done it yet - at least a site search doesn't find it except on the webwise.bt.com pages. So anyone with Webwise urls blocked can't read the BT Webwise FAQ. Bit much when your ISP puts really vital information on pages hosted outside the internal IP range it is officially responsible for.