Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:05:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Edwin Culp <eculp@webwizard.org.mx> Cc: dk+@ua.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape communicator 4.5 preview 1 is released ~50 minutes ago Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980717160157.22920C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <35AD5A92.78123D1B@webwizard.org.mx>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
We've found that 4.5pr1 has a nasty tendancy to leak information about page visits to the Netscape servers -- that is, the "Smart Browsing" feature. If you so much as click the button up there to pull down the menu, the URL for the page you are currently visiting is sent to the Netscape web servers. At TIS, we're concerned as this could easily leak data about our internal server structure to Netscape. It also gives them a very large marketing advantage, etc. We are advising our users to turn it off, and are working on making our firewall block such requests. It seems like a neat feature for the un-privacy-concerned end user, but really has no place in our environment. The configuration menus seem a lot nice now, though. I'd like to see Netscape put a link to the FreeBSD version on their web page, not just a file on their ftp server. Linux, etc, are up on the web server, and I suspect that their being there raises there legitimacy in the eyes of the viewer -- the signficant lack of FreeBSD there is concerning. On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Edwin Culp wrote: > Dmitry Kohmanyuk =?KOI8-R?B?5M3J1NLJyiDrz8jNwc7Ayw==?= wrote: > > > > there is no binary for freebsd, but this one works: > > > > > There is now :-) Hot out of the oven > > ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/4.5_PR1/english/unix/freebsd2/communicator-v45b1-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz > If the url isn't right it's close :-) > ed > > > > (there are 3 linux packages...) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Ahora > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980717160157.22920C-100000>