Friday, August 29, 2008

Juniper SSL VPN and Firefox on Windows whitepage work around

My company does a lot work with Juniper SSL implemenations.

There has been some odd behavior in Firefox on Windows machines when connecting to Juniper SSL VPN. Immediately after login users are taken to a blank white page. The URL of the page contains data/home/starter0.cgi?check=yes . The page you should be redirected to includes data/home/starter.cgi?check=yes.

Juniper’s suggested work around is to go back to the sign in screen and login again or to remove the 0 from between starter and .cgi. Both are manual solutions, wouldn’t it be easier to have an automatic solution.

Well here it is.

Download the Firefox add on Redirector - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5064

After installation you will need to restart Firefox

Open Redirector by right clicking on the R in the status bar in Firefox

Click Add…

The Example url is the full url you get stuck on i.e. https://this.ismyexample.com/data/home/starter0.cgi?check=yes

The Include Pattern is https://this.ismyexample.com/data/home/starter0.*

Redirect to is https://this.ismyexample.com/data/home/starter.cgi?check=yes

Set the Pattern Type to Wildcard and click Test pattern

You should get a message that indicates that the pattern matches. If not go back and check your typing.

Click Ok

Click Close

Go back and log in again. You should go right past the page you were getting stuck at previously.

Be safe


James

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Keep a hand on your iPhone

Adam Dodge pointed me to this article on CSO Online this morning - http://www.csoonline.com/article/446281/IPhones_Can_Be_Unlocked_Without_Password
This afternoon a customer stopped by with an iPhone and was kind enough to let me test the hack out.
I was able to confirm that the simple tap sequence does work. But only if you have your home button set to go to your Favorites. My customer had his set to go to iTunes (go figure - he wanted to listen to the music on his iPhone).
So rather than remove all of your Favorites, set your home button to go to iTunes instead.
Be safe out there
James