Recently, a developer asked me how to enable Brotli content-compression support in FiddlerCore applications, so that APIs like oSession.GetResponseBodyAsString() work properly when the entity body has been compressed using brotli. Right now, support requires two steps: Put brotli.exe (installed by Fiddler or off Github) into a Tools subfolder of the folder containing your application’s executable. Ensure that theContinue reading “FiddlerCore and Brotli compression”
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Downloads and the Mark-of-the-Web
Last update: Apr 3, 2023 Background Windows uses a simple technique to keep track of which binary files were downloaded from the Internet (or a network share). Each downloaded file is is tagged with a hidden NTFS Alternate Data Stream file named Zone.Identifier. You can check for the presence of this “Mark of the Web”Continue reading “Downloads and the Mark-of-the-Web”
Authenticode and ClickOnce
On my old IEInternals blog, I posted a fair bit about using Authenticode to sign your programs so that their origins could be identified and to avoid triggering warnings from SmartScreen. My last post on that blog before Microsoft took it away was about using a hardware token to improve security of your certificate’s privateContinue reading “Authenticode and ClickOnce”
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