From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 21 10:12:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4476B37B407 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:12:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 41320 invoked by uid 100); 21 Jul 2001 17:12:26 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15193.47098.324801.610159@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:12:26 -0500 To: Shannon Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRGH Netscape stinks! In-Reply-To: <37089136@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shannon types: > CERT is very correct in recommend these be disabled. Unfortunately there > are some sites I use often that require it. It would be nice if you > could turn scripting off for all but specific sites. I disable them both. If I run into a site that absolutely has to have them, I tend to go elsewhere. Yes, that means I wind up paying a bit more for things sometimes. On the other hand - do I really want to give me CC number to someone who cares so little about my security? For those where I have no other choice - generally because I'm a client in the real world, not just cyber - I turn it on, do my business, then turn it off and shut down the browser. JavaScript should work the way cookies do in IBrowse - or at least did the last time I looked at it, in mid '98. It looks like recent builds of Mozilla have similar functionality. Whenever the browser gets a cookie, it checks to see if I've decided whether that site can set cookies or not, and uses that if it can find it. If not, it asks me, including a checkbox as to whether or not it should remember that decision. I know, I have sources to mozilla. So I could probably add that functionality if I really wanted it. I don't want it bad enough yet... http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message