Does this mean that the "view page source" link that comes up when the 
anonymity doesn't work in IE?

Perhaps a better approach is to treat the detection of *any* html in a 
text/plain document as a potential threat and warn the user (being 
careful to modify the "View page source" link since it would likely be 
ineffective).

Ian.

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:06:44PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> If you insert a page of HTML as text/plain, it will not be filtered,
> being a 'safe' content-type. However, M$IE (tested a fairly recent
> version - somewhere between 5 and 6 inclusive), will recognize the HTML,
> and render it. So... we need to have loud warnings not to use IE, all
> over the place, in the README, but especially, we need fproxy to scan
> for IE's header signature, and if detected bring up a clickthrough page
> (like for new build versions, make it a bit more stubborn - force users
> to copy a URL into the address bar by hand would do it), explaining all
> this if it detects M$IE using it. Alternatively, we could filter out bad
> HTML/CSS regardless of the supposed MIME type.

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Ian Clarke                                        ian at freenetproject.org
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