Re: Active-content filtering (was RE: Buffer Overruns)

[Neil Ratzlaff <neil.ratzlaff () ucop edu>]

At 05:56 12/21/99 -0500, fernando_montenegro () hp com wrote:
> Hello!
>
> One or two messages in this thread mentioned some firewalls' ability to 
> filter
> out Java[script]|ActiveX from the HTTP stream.
>
> Considering the current scenario, where lots and lots of sites with valid,
> business-need content, will use client-side scripting|code as fundamental for
> functionality (news/stock tickers, client-side input validation, etc...), how
> many people have actually used this feature of their firewalls in production
> environments where serving Web content for an internal population is part of
> the requirement? I would think the end user population would scream bloody
> murder if this kind of functionality was blocked indiscriminately at the
> firewall.
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As an end user, I would love it if web sites would give up their feeling 
that running java on my PC is necessary.  I find it slows things down (of 
course, I do have a fast connection), makes me nervous, and I have yet to 
see anything that makes my experience better that could not be done as well 
on the server side.  Most times java is run by a web site, it is doing 
something I don't want to see.  Consider this a vote for cleaner and safer 
web sites.

Neil