Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M. Bishop):
> > These requests are not ignoring the proxy settings. What makes you
> > think that the proxy is being ignored for these items?
> You said the js downloads flashs which wwwoffle couldn't detect.
> So i assumed these download requests are not passing wwwoffle.
The reason that WWWOFFLE cannot detect the flash and block it is that
WWWOFFLE will only see the HTML in step 2 and not the HTML in step 4
that actually contains the link to the flash. WWWOFFLE will not be
able to detect the flash in advance and block it so that the browser
does not see the link to it.
> As you previously wrote:
> > When this script is run you will end up with some extra HTML that the
> > browser will see in step (4) but that WWWOFFLE could not see in step (2)
> > > 1) The server sends HTML including Javascript.
> > > 2) WWWOFFLE is here and hides any flash animations but leaves
> > > Javascript unchanged (unless you set disable-script=yes).
> > > 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.
> > WWWOFFLE will modify the HTML so that what the browser sees does not
> > contain
> > any links to the flash animations. This only works on the HTML from the
> > server and
> > not any Javascript in it.
>
> But where is wwwoffle at step 5 ? This kind of requests certainly
> should pass a proxy, too ?
> How else could wwwoffle cache js-downloaded stuff ?
> And if they _do_ pass wwwoffle, why couldn't they be blocked then ?
In step 5 the requests will go through WWWOFFLE, but it does not mean
that WWWOFFLE will be able to detect that they are flash. If the file
has the normal .swf filename extension then you can block it using the
DontGet section of the configuration file. The disable-flash option
in the ModifyHTML section of the configuration file cannot be used to
block this type of flash.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
