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SelfProtection · 10-06-2008, 10:44

A question keeps making my head spin, maybe someone can clarify how BT & others may manage it.

BT are trying to produce a non cookie option as the cookie clearly leaks & could easily be proved to breach DPA requirements.

In the absence of Cookies, which I believe were also being used to prevent infinite loops on the infrastructure. How would this Infrastructure properly detect infinite loops, specifically in the case of a Firewall or Router blocking the Webwise System. (hosts file would resolve to 127.0.0.1 & not go through the system?).

If this cannot be done reliably then a 100% CPU load could easily be reached with resulting Power & Load Balancing problems.

I specifically ask this because there have been spurious reports on Forums about users having to lift their Software Firewall in order to connect to http port 80 on both the BT & NTL Service, even though they can still receive e-mail etc, over the last 4-6 weeks.
This seems to intermittent & annoying for some users?

10-06-2008, 10:44	#8518
SelfProtection Inactive Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 265	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] A question keeps making my head spin, maybe someone can clarify how BT & others may manage it. BT are trying to produce a non cookie option as the cookie clearly leaks & could easily be proved to breach DPA requirements. In the absence of Cookies, which I believe were also being used to prevent infinite loops on the infrastructure. How would this Infrastructure properly detect infinite loops, specifically in the case of a Firewall or Router blocking the Webwise System. (hosts file would resolve to 127.0.0.1 & not go through the system?). If this cannot be done reliably then a 100% CPU load could easily be reached with resulting Power & Load Balancing problems. I specifically ask this because there have been spurious reports on Forums about users having to lift their Software Firewall in order to connect to http port 80 on both the BT & NTL Service, even though they can still receive e-mail etc, over the last 4-6 weeks. This seems to intermittent & annoying for some users?