Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So javascript can circumvent my proxy ? What else can js do then ?
> Download more code, which also downloads more code which downloads
> more stuff ? Keeping my machine busy with things i don't have the
> slightest clue about ? I can't imagine this is true !
The Javascript code is not circumventing your proxy. All of the
changes that it makes to the HTML are handled by the browser which
will request the images, objects etc in the normal way.
By enabling Javascript you are allowing programs written by other
people to be run within your browser. The browser implements security
that should stop these programs from accessing your disk or doing any
real damage. The Javascript can do a lot of things to your browser
though, like opening up new windows, resizing the browser etc.
> At least a
> browser must be controllable, there should be settings. I remember
> there were a lot of settings in iexplorer last time i configured and
> used one (but it's a _long_ while since ;)
> With galeon, for example, i can set some few limits to what js can
> do. I didn't discover a way to say don't download flashs from this
> site yet. But I always believed i can do that and more with a proxy.
With Galeon and the other Mozilla based browsers there are options
that will stop Javascript doing some things like resizing the window
or creating the new ones. There is nothing that will stop it
re-writing the HTML though.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M. Bishop):
> > The sequence of events is this.
> >
> > 1) The server sends HTML including Javascript.
> > 2) WWWOFFLE is here and hides any flash animations but leaves
> > Javascript unchanged.
> > 3) The browser runs the Javascript which writes out some extra
> > HTML into the page.
> > 4) The browser displays the modified HTML which includes the flash
> > animation object tags that the Javascript wrote.
> > 5) The browser gets the flash animation and displays it.
> ok, it's just this way, granted. The browser interpreting the
> javascripted html page will send download requests. Why do those
> requests ignore the proxy then ? Did i configure galeon to work with
> a proxy and then it's not used in some cases ? Couldn't that be
> changed at least by the developers (hi there !) ?
These requests are not ignoring the proxy settings. What makes you
think that the proxy is being ignored for these items?
--
Andrew.
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http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
