Comments on: AOL UK uses curl in disguise http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/02/28/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise/ Technology is life Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:21:59 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Drasha http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/02/28/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Drasha Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:33:20 +0000 http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/02/28/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise/#comment-978 The renaming of the tool is also done in order to make it more obvious to users... --- And the licence has been stripped away so that users who would accidentally read were not confused. D'oh! The renaming of the tool is also done in order to make it more obvious to users…

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And the licence has been stripped away so that users who would accidentally read were not confused. D’oh!

]]> By: daniel http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/02/28/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise/comment-page-1/#comment-976 daniel Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:32:50 +0000 http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/02/28/aol-uk-uses-curl-in-disguise/#comment-976 I was contacted today privately by a friendly person at AOL Broadband regarding this, and he assures me that this was a mistake that is going to be addressed. The renaming of the tool is also done in order to make it more obvious to users that it is the installer wanting to access the internet (when their firewall warns about it etc) rather than a cryptic "curl" tool. I'm impressed by this action and attitude. Thanks AOL! I was contacted today privately by a friendly person at AOL Broadband regarding this, and he assures me that this was a mistake that is going to be addressed.

The renaming of the tool is also done in order to make it more obvious to users that it is the installer wanting to access the internet (when their firewall warns about it etc) rather than a cryptic “curl” tool.

I’m impressed by this action and attitude. Thanks AOL!

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