From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 17 13:07:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11389 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:07:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@COPLAND.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11314 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 13:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA23917; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:05:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Edwin Culp cc: dk+@ua.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape communicator 4.5 preview 1 is released ~50 minutes ago In-Reply-To: <35AD5A92.78123D1B@webwizard.org.mx> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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