{"id":33,"date":"2006-05-13T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-05-13T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T10:25:03","slug":"o2-website-contacting-my-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/2006\/o2-website-contacting-my-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"O2 website contacting my PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on this <a href=\"http:\/\/mobilereviews.o2.co.uk\/userreview\/home\">Mobile Reviews &#8211; O2<\/a> page just now, when I noticed firefox showing it was trying to contact 127.0.0.1, that for those who don&#8217;t know, is a special IP address which points to &#8216;localhost&#8217;, i.e. the client computer which is viewing the page. the line is <a href=http:\/\/092.me>question<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<pre id=\"line38\">< <span class=\"start-tag\">script<span class=\"attribute-name\"> language<\/span>=<span class=\"attribute-value\">'javascript' <\/span><span class=\"attribute-name\">src<\/span>=<span class=\"attribute-value\">'http:\/\/127.0.0.1:1030\/js.cgi?ca&r=4675'<\/span>><!--<span class=\"end-tag\"-->script><\/pre>\n<p>It appears as if this o2.co.uk page is trying to connect to port 1030 on the user&#8217;s computer and request a javascript file. This is vary strange and I presume (in good faith) that this is a mistake, but o2 should not have this on their website, people do not expect a website like this to be contacting an obscure port on the local computer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jibble.org\/o2\/\">O2 have had much worse security issues in the past (as reported on jibble.org) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on this Mobile Reviews &#8211; O2 page just now, when I noticed firefox showing it was trying to contact 127.0.0.1, that for those who don&#8217;t know, is a special IP address which points to &#8216;localhost&#8217;, i.e. the client computer which is viewing the page. the line is question is: < script language='javascript' src='http:\/\/127.0.0.1:1030\/js.cgi?ca&#038;r=4675'>script> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}