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Re: Huh? That is my question as well. The phone should simply be the link between you and the internet. Nokia should have no part in it. |
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| said by aciddrink:That is my question as well. The phone should simply be the link between you and the internet. Nokia should have no part in it.
A lot of companies do it or are doing it in order to "speed up" how fast web pages display on a screen. It's much faster to render the page on a server and send it to the phone than have the phone do it. All of the major cell providers use a similar system, as does Apple I'm sure. |
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| But most systems, do not decrypt https traffic, they only optimize http traffic.
You shouldn't trade security for a few seconds on a page load.
and it definitely shouldn't be done by default.
Nokia should be slammed for this. They literally hack your https traffic on a regular basis. No matter what Nokia PR tries to claim, this is a security risk.
I'm very glad I don't own anything from Nokia. |
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rradina
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1 edit | I agree. Compressing clear-text HTTP traffic to increase effective data transfer speeds is one thing but doing it with HTTPS (which unless decrypted, isn't going to compress much if at all) is beyond belief. I didn't even know that was possible and I think Microsoft also owes us an explanation as to how WP8 even allows Nokia to configure the OS to allow this.
EDIT: Apparently this isn't occuring on WP8 phones. It looks like it's Nokia's feature phones:
Handset Model: Nokia Asha 302
OS Version: 14.78 (31-08-12), RM-813
Browsers Tested On: Nokia Browser (2.2.0.0.31)
OS Type: Series 40 (S40) |
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| said by rradina:I agree. Compressing clear-text HTTP traffic to increase effective data transfer speeds is one thing but doing it with HTTPS (which unless decrypted, isn't going to compress much if at all) is beyond belief. I didn't even know that was possible and I think Microsoft also owes us an explanation as to how WP8 even allows Nokia to configure the OS to allow this.
EDIT: Apparently this isn't occuring on WP8 phones. It looks like it's Nokia's feature phones:
Handset Model: Nokia Asha 302
OS Version: 14.78 (31-08-12), RM-813
Browsers Tested On: Nokia Browser (2.2.0.0.31)
OS Type: Series 40 (S40)
Which makes sense given their lower processing power compared to a single, dual, or quad core smart phone like the Lumia series. |
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