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Abusing HTTP Status Codes to Expose Private Information

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Ignoring the privacy implications for a second, as a website developer, you might like to know if your visitors are logged into GMail; you could use that information to automatically fill the email fields in your forms with "@gmail.com"... Perhaps you might want to make your Facebook "like" buttons more prominent if you can tell your visitor is logged into Facebook at the moment? Here's how I achieve this:

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