Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Nikolaus Rath:

> On Jul 15 2015, Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> wrote:
>> As Jakub was saying: just starting it up without even visiting a site yet will
>> do a POST and a *few dozen* GET requests.  Shouldn't it be waiting with its
>> checks until it actually knows what to check?  What is it sending them at
>> browser startup?
>
> Why don't you check the code?

I found the Mozilla safe-browsing code *very* hard to read.  It's not
just the protocol, you also need to know a lot about how Javascript is
used as part of the browser implementation.