Heres another idea..  What about a freenet browser?  Why not just hack
up the mozilla code and release a browser that runs on every OS, works
with fproxy, and solves the IE/Media URL problems.  This way there would
be a browser that definatly WORKS without the freenet developers having
to figure out a way around every little stupid security problem.

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 11:08, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> eric at caffrey.net writes:
> 
> > Its just windows media files that I know of.  MPEG files are safe unless
> > its really a windows media file renamed to a .mpg extention.
> 
> Well mpeg is a quite flexible format, you can stuff a lot in there. If
> winamp decided to interpret the content of a special chunk as an URL
> where it should go immediately, that's a new problem. Same with
> webbugs in MSOffice documents, and what have you. I'm not sure if we'd
> ever be able to catch up with the stream of web-integration features
> the application developers are throwing (up) at us.
> 
> A different approach would be to offer a small script that set your
> http/ftp/etc. proxy to some invalid address, and only lets through
> requests to your fproxy host. Then it starts your browser, and after
> you've finished surfing freenet, it restores your previous settings.
> Is this doable under Windows?
> 
> You won't be able to browse the net during this time, though.
> 
> Maybe set the proxy to some service of fproxy instead, that allows
> checked jumps into the web?
> 
> -- 
> Robbe



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