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icq status, https error and user tracking

Started by fun4us, December 12, 2014, 02:40:31 AM

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fun4us

Hello, this is not a big bug but a problem.

If the icq messenger and maybe also other messengers are anabled, SMF loads the ICQ status icon directly from http://status.icq.com/...

There are three problems with this:

1.) If your website uses https instead of http this provokes an error in modern browsers for unsafe content. The status image is load without https. One but not the best possible soluten is to always use https://status.icq.com/...

2.) This tiny picture allows icq user tracking of every visitor of the forum. This could be a legal problem in some countries.
So it whould be better the server checks the status and serves an icon from the server not from icq.

3.) If a user has entered an icq number in his profile and the function is switched off afterwards, the icq symbol continue appear in the personal messages. (If you got one personal message from the user.)

Regards Stefan

Illori

in 2.1 all the icons are loaded locally and do not load any status from the IM's website.

all these icons/IM's can already be disabled in 2.0 and still can be in 2.1. we have already done so with msn here as it no longer works.

fun4us


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