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CapacitorSet on June 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versi...

>They could use Javascript to query a test server, which responds with the correct headers.

As far as I know, Javascript doesn't have low-level access to connections, not enough to run even a stub TLS 1.3 implementation.

MayeulC on June 13, 2018 [–]

I was more thinking about querying something like testtls.google.com, that would analyze the results server-side (this might require an extra round-trip), and return them to be displayed.

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