[tor-talk] Old version welcome page does not warn about being obsolete

Gerardus Hendricks konfkukor at riseup.net
Tue Apr 22 13:43:26 UTC 2014


On 4/22/14 10:05 AM, David Balažic wrote:
> The welcome screen show things as normal. There is no mention that
 > the version is ancient and should not be used. Not even a hint,
 > that a newer version might exist.

Then probably that ancient version is buggy when it checks if it's out 
of date.

The old welcome screen at check.torproject.org can't actually detect an 
old version. The TBB decides if it's out of date, and signals the site 
with the uptodate=0 query parameter, which in turn presents a warning.


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