Existing users, 
PGP Desktop Email
PGP security/encryption for IM, email, virtual disks.
Version: 9.10
No Referrer Information
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: tombovo Thursday, June 30 2005 @ 06:56 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: NO
The links to download the product never work--they go to a page (http://download.pgp.com/error/no-referrer.html) that says there is no "referrer information" (using both Firefox and Safari with firwall turned off). I know that I'm not using a proxy, I'm not altering the request headers, and have tested that referrer information correctly passes to other sites, so the link here is just for show. Since they already have the referrer error page set up, I suspect that that this is just a come on to get a user to their site, and maybe they'll buy the product. I suggest you DON'T BUY THIS WASTE OF TIME. I already made that mistake (2 licences for 9.0).
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No Referrer Information - mbanri
I think the error message states clearly why they want you to download from their website "This information is required to insure that all software is downloaded directly from our site and not mirrored and that all downloads are in agreement with our EULA."Think about it for a second - what if you downloaded a compromised version from a warez site? Would you really trust a version of PGP you "found" on p2p/torrent?
In this case I think versiontracker is the one with the bad link.
Monday, July 25 2005 @ 12:33 PM PDT
No Referrer Information - tombovo
You need to read what I said the problem actually was: If I click a link at versiiontracker.com, and that link sends me to pgp.com, the tcp header that is received at pgp.com should contain a "referrer," which is the web site that has the link that is clicked. The page request received by pgp.com contains information that tells pgp.com's server that the request came from a link at versiontracker.com, but pgp.com's code wasn't reading the the header information correctly--that is poor coding. If they can't read the referrer (all web languages like asp, jsp, and php have some capability to do this built in), how well can they put together a complex application, or worse, what happened to quality control?Pgp, as a product and a corporate philosophy, seems to have NO QA.
Monday, August 29 2005 @ 11:53 AM PDT
No referrer - m-bomb
I don't have any problems downloading it from this link:http://download.pgp.com/products/beta/desktop/PGPDesktop902PB1.dmg
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Friday, July 01 2005 @ 01:05 AM PDT