-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Feb 20, 3:09pm, Mike Rose wrote:
For those who haven't read the script, the technique used is as follows. A java script sends a mail message to the author of the script. The identity of the sender is in the mail headers. The script does not look at netscape variables or otherwise get the information from netscape or the environment.
Javascript is coming to annoy me more and more all the time. I can turn off Java in Netscape, but I can't turn off Javascript, and I've already encountered pages which use Javascript to animate status bars and so on. My web browser should *not* be generating 90% of my usage, or if it is, there should be a way of turning it off. So, here's a proposal for those who (a) run high-traffic sites and (b) are similarly annoyed with the Netscape plan. Insert the following at the top of your top-level page. <BODY onLoad="document.mailme.submit()"> <!-- First found at http://www.popco.com/grabtest.html --> <form method=post name="mailme" action="mailto:support@netscape.com?subject=javascript breaks privacy protections"> <h3>Viewing this page has automatically sent a short piece of protest e-mail to Netscape.</h3> <input type=hidden name="Please let users turn " value="JAVASCRIPT OFF NOW!"> </form> [the rest of your page here] ... </BODY></HTML> They *might* get the point. <excuse> It's *not* spamming them! Folks'll only--at most--send them about fifteen messages a day! </excuse> They can use it to replace cookies, if they ever get rid of cookies. ["Alright, Jim, we've had to reboot the mail server fifteen times today, which suggests that there's about fourteen thousand more users than yesterday... Pity they can't talk to us, eh?"] <malicious grin> frodo =) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMSpFUx1gtCYLvIJ1AQFxqgP9FT90ol1fakS2Zy2TN8eqMpsad0/UjSKZ anEXYUUMzhV2Pr+RudCydygFa5HxiGMiHdjmLaO0cONsAmTD/MY2OrwigDfpk/DA 0SuqMgPhFt/UyGkatu0ZDLkpjUFqY0e6AD81mYe5eVBxarnfUtuZXEM7Slu/K4yF ij67tiCQbh0= =nNwZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Richard Martin Alias|Wavefront - Toronto Office [Co-op Software Developer, Games Team] rmartin@aw.sgi.com/g4frodo@cdf.toronto.edu http://www.io.org/~samwise Trinity College UofT ChemPhysCompSci 9T7+PEY=9T8 Shad Valley Waterloo 1992