Originally Posted by
Bruce11
It's interesting to see how A_Lee is assuming how KVS works, and then quoting the terms and conditions of this website.
KVS does NOT use any credentials of its own, nor does it store any information from any website. It's merely a presentation tool, using the user's credentials to log in to the website (which the user can easily do himself), showing the same information obtained from the webpage.
Well others who checked all the packets of data being communicated seem to think otherwise. They have reported that in the past without supplying any credentials it was accessing the data from Lorraine Travel as well as a couple other sites. KVS replied that they did not store any such credentials INTERNALLY in their software. But if not, then how was it accessing this data, that the user supplied no credentials for? Please do give us your idea on how this was done, if you believe KVS, and you don't think my explanation (that they somehow pulled the credentials from some site and stored that credential information into the credentials file, or some other file external to the KVS application).
Originally Posted by
Bruce11
The above can be verified using simple tools. Everything that KVS does, can be done with a regular browser. Using KVS takes the same amount of time as using a regular browser, (meaning that if, for example, the BA website is slow, then the BA method in KVS would be just as slow). KVS is similar to an Ad Blocker tool, that hides part of webpage when you browse it.
Ok, then one simple question for you. How would one access the GTC information with a regular browser? I don't know much about it, but did look at the documentation I found and saw no way in the documentation that it (GetThere Connect) would supply availability information using a standard webbrowser. Rather it looked to me to just show results based on prices. Admittedly I've never used it, so maybe the documentation I read was incomplete or a different version, but this was the FAU information I examined, being KVS was recommending using FAU's password to create your own account.