@attritionorg Yes. Several times.
Any web app testers seen an app *query a database* for user-agent info/matching, to vary site output? (cc @jeremiahg)
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@Gillis57@attritionorg same, seen it lots. Curious question.. -
@serachewhi@Gillis57 in my years of app testing, and every friend I have talked to, we have never seen it once -
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@serachewhi is that how sites handle 'mobile' detection?
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@attritionorg PLEASE tell me it sanitized the user-agent string first? :) -
@dcept905 that is part of what led to this question
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@attritionorg yes, although am not a pentester per se :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg@jeremiahg You mean real db like MySQL/Oracle or do hardcoded constants count too? Yes, we see sometimes. But never db-based.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg@jeremiahg nm you said database :-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg@jeremiahg doesn't WordPress do that for mobile version?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg yah, have seen it from time to time. rare in my experience and really couldn't cite an example.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg query? No. Insert for logs is pretty common.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg@jeremiahg Of course, get user agent from request, look up style in DB and render appropriately. Not so strange...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@attritionorg Didn't@chrisjohnriley write a script for testing for this? -
@timb_machine@attritionorg I wrote a tool (UAtester) that queries a website with various UA strings and shows variations in response
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