Thus spake Mike Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > but if you're asking whether XPCOM allows one to use a proxy on/off > > based on a page and all its components (images, css files, js files), the > > answer is yes. > > Yes, excellent. That is the property that is needed. If you use that > level of control, you are fine. > > Incidentally, the problem above can happen with ftp://, gopher:// and > whatever other protocol the browser might accept, so make sure you are > updating all proxy settings for each page.
So I've noticed a couple other gotchas when looking at the html content of a couple of sites. 1. Frames and iframes. Frames are not very common on email sites, but I believe about.com does use them and has been known to pass information between frames. iframes are used by google adsense. I could easily see XPCOM interpreting frames/iframes as being distinct pages. 2. Links. Say I want to know who [EMAIL PROTECTED] is. I send them a mail (possibly spoofed to look like it's from a previous correspondent of theirs) instructing them to click on some link that I control that no one else has seen. This can happen inadvertantly or accidentally even, I know I've accidentally clicked on an ad banner/stray link here or there. Can you provide some sort of option so that the proxy stays enabled for links clicked from a proxy-enabled page? Would be useful for those of us with over-sensitive touchpads :) -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs