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Re:Request bodies in GET requests by jrockway on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:36PM (#30155699)
The proxies in question strip HTTPS, and re-encrypt with a certificate your IT department installed on your device.
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Re:Request bodies in GET requests by wizzwizz4 on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:58PM (#30155986)
Those break everything anyway. Nobody should be obliged to support that.

… Now, back to reality. :-(

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Re:Request bodies in GET requests by jjav on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:04AM (#30160200)
Reality is that approximately every company has these deployed. Not good, but reality.
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Re:Request bodies in GET requests by Thiez on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:44PM (#30168992)
Not where I'm from. Is this an American thing?
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Re:Request bodies in GET requests by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:32PM (#30171282)
It's being imported into schools in the UK and parts of mainland Europe. Cory Doctorow reckons that there's a trend, where things like this start in places like schools and then gradually end up in all our institutions.
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