-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, Mike Alexander wrote...
TF>> I agree, Word should just call IE and let IE connect to the TF>> internet. Alas, when I click on a URL in Word, my PFW says that TF>> "Word" (not IE) is attempting to connnect to IP-address TF>> so-and-so, port 80. That's all I know. > It is because (now don't laugh!) some people use Word to design > their web pages. Consequently, the link *has* to be live, otherwise > it wouldn't work. So why does Word even need to deal with the links? I do offline web design, I would never use word, but I dare say some do... Does that mean they cannot design a website because they have no internet connection? What happens if I write a document that references a website (not an html page, or the likes, just a plain old doc)... does that need access to the web too? I think the reason that the firewall is picking up that word is requesting web access is because of the system call it is making. Word itself isn't attempting to make an internet connection, but it is however making a system call to invoke the related application. This indirectly would make Word the application that requested access, although the firewall miss-identified the actual program that is going to use the link. From a guess, the firewall is likely to be looking out for certain calls to the system library, like ShellExec, with an URL as an argument. Before this continues going... as it has clearly gone out of the bounds of tbudl... want to continue this thread over on tbot if you want to go on? - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Fingerprint: 676A 1701 665B E343 E393 B8D2 2B83 E814 F8FD 1F73 iQA/AwUBPnATKCuD6BT4/R9zEQLQRQCg22r5w9oJA/WYR5nAXy7RSqNEjiUAoP2/ B6qGcvA1b/35z6LzsCLSPSXz =n75f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
