On 01/11/05, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tcp/ip packets. Furthermore, the http spoken by firefox should be > transparent from that spoken by, say, opera. IMO, draconian > restrictions like this are not very productive in the longer run.
While totally I agree with you, we should not forget that what the OP asks for is standard feature on several host-based firewall products (popular in the Windows world). HTTP as spoken by Firefox and Opera is the same dialect, but a host-based firewall should be able to distinguish between Firefox and an attacker exploiting php's fopen() (to take an example). Binand ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
