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The following piece of code prevents my wife from using my iBook for shopping online at DongDong.com:
<html> <body> <form action="/customer/query.asp" method=post name=form1 id=form1> </form> </body> </htmL> <script language=vbs> window.form1.submit() </script>
Why do people do that? Using VBScript will make a website unusable in almost all web browsers (except for the one with the 95% market share). I can understand resorting to VBScript to do some fancy stuff that cannot be done otherwise, but just to redirect to some other page after making login cookies? This can be easily achieved otherwise, especially in this case, where there are not even any parameters to be passed around, completely removing the need for a form at all. If they cannot redirect internally, what is wrong with sending HTTP redirect headers, or at the most an empty page with meta-refresh? Finally, although any kind of script is unwarranted here, they could use JavaScript without even changing the syntax. I am really hoping the recent Chinese/Korean/Japanese push for non-Microsoft software will put an end to this nonsense.