[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-08 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 07 September 2002 23:47, Dan Merillat wrote: <> > Here's the anonymity risks: > > 1) Image/somethingwedontrecognize <-- IE, netscape like to load "plugins" > for things it dosn't recognize. Someone could compromise the download > server f

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-08 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 07 September 2002 23:47, Dan Merillat wrote: <> > Here's the anonymity risks: > > 1) Image/somethingwedontrecognize <-- IE, netscape like to load "plugins" > for things it dosn't recognize. Someone could compromise the download > server

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:47:47AM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: > > > Or just replace < and > with one of these set of similar looking characters > > (I think the last 2 are non-Unicode characters which can be shown in most > > browsers without prompting to download silly extra packs) > >

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-08 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 12:47:47AM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: > > > Or just replace < and > with one of these set of similar looking characters > > (I think the last 2 are non-Unicode characters which can be shown in most > > browsers without prompting to download silly extra packs) ‹›??»«‹› > >

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-08 Thread Dan Merillat
> Or just replace < and > with one of these set of similar looking characters > (I think the last 2 are non-Unicode characters which can be shown in most > browsers without prompting to download silly extra packs) Like < and >, perhaps? It dosn't matter, though. IE is going to second-g

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread Dan Merillat
> Or just replace < and > with one of these set of similar looking characters > (I think the last 2 are non-Unicode characters which can be shown in most > browsers without prompting to download silly extra packs) ‹›??»«‹› Like < and >, perhaps? It dosn't matter, though. IE is going to second-

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Matthew Toseland writes: > I'd prefer for it to start immediately as HTML, in case any browser only > treats text as HTML if it sees HTML in the first n lines or n chars. Fair enough. > Yup. There are some interfaces issues; I am planning to add a > "Protecting your anonymity" link/servlet to t

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd prefer for it to start immediately as HTML, in case any browser only > treats text as HTML if it sees HTML in the first n lines or n chars. Fair enough. > Yup. There are some interfaces issues; I am planning to add a > "Protecting your anonymit

RE: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread William_dw -- Sqlcoders
> > > > > > If IE is detected, FProxy could make an HTML document with a large > > > > > > > > > (say, 70 cols and 25 rows) and put the actual document in > that. Surely > > > IE won't parse HTML inside a . Or would it? > > > > This is just a thought, but... > > > > If I wanted to be malicious

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread William_dw -- Sqlcoders
> > > > > > If IE is detected, FProxy could make an HTML document with a large > > > > > > > > > (say, 70 cols and 25 rows) and put the actual document in > that. Surely > > > IE won't parse HTML inside a . Or would it? > > > > This is just a thought, but... > > > > If I wanted to be malicious I

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread Jukka Holappa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timm Murray wrote: | On Friday 06 September 2002 19:19, William_dw -- Sqlcoders wrote: | |As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like |that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? | |-- |Robbe

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-07 Thread Jukka Holappa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timm Murray wrote: | On Friday 06 September 2002 19:19, William_dw -- Sqlcoders wrote: | |As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like |that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? | |-- |Robb

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Matthew Toseland
rg > > > > >[mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org]On Behalf Of Robert Bihlmeyer > > >Sent: 06 September 2002 12:44 > > >To: devl at freenetproject.org > > >Subject: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues > > > > > > > > > > > >As a final t

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Travis Bemann writes: > > > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page > > where the user has to type "I do know that Micro$oft Internet > > Explorer is an insecure piece of shit" as specified by the page in

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 September 2002 19:19, William_dw -- Sqlcoders wrote: > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like > > > >that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? > > > > > > > >-- > > > >Robbe > > > > > >

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 September 2002 17:51, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Travis Bemann writes: > > > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page > > > where the user has to

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Travis Bemann writes: > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page > where the user has to type "I do know that Micro$oft Internet > Explorer is an insecure piece of shit" as specified by the page into > a text item in a form (the $ would be mandatory) and then press a > but

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 September 2002 19:19, William_dw -- Sqlcoders wrote: > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like > > > >that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? > > > > > > > >-- > > > >Robbe > > > > > >

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Timm Murray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 September 2002 17:51, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Travis Bemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page > > > w

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Timm Murray
nt: 06 September 2002 12:44 > >To: devl at freenetproject.org > >Subject: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues > > > > > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like > >that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead?

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread William_dw -- Sqlcoders
> > > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like > > >that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? > > > > > >-- > > >Robbe > > > > As far as I've found IE really likes HTML, unless it pop's up a file > > download box it will try to interpret any HTML l

RE: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread William_dw -- Sqlcoders
> > > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like > > >that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? > > > > > >-- > > >Robbe > > > > As far as I've found IE really likes HTML, unless it pop's up a file > > download box it will try to interpret any HTML

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Matthew Toseland
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Bihlmeyer > > >Sent: 06 September 2002 12:44 > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues > > > > > > > > > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Timm Murray
:44 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues > > > > > > > >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like > >that? What happens if you send "text/x-really-plain" instead? > > > >-- > >Robbe

Re: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Matthew Toseland
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:43:47PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Travis Bemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page > > where the user has to type "I do know that Micro$oft Internet > > Explorer is an insecure piece of shit" as spec

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread William_dw -- Sqlcoders
>-Original Message- >From: devl-admin at freenetproject.org >[mailto:devl-admin at freenetproject.org]On Behalf Of Robert Bihlmeyer >Sent: 06 September 2002 12:44 >To: devl at freenetproject.org >Subject: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues >As a final thought, couldn&

RE: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread William_dw -- Sqlcoders
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Bihlmeyer >Sent: 06 September 2002 12:44 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [freenet-dev] MSIE issues >As a final thought, couldn't we just work around deficiencies like

[freenet-dev] MSIE issues

2002-09-06 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Travis Bemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that a good compromise would be to put up a warning page > where the user has to type "I do know that Micro$oft Internet > Explorer is an insecure piece of shit" as specified by the page into > a text item in a form (the $ would be mandatory) an