On 01/11/05 12:23 -0500, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > 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).
You may want to talk to Gaurav Vaidya about Helmet (He is speaking at foss.in/2005 about it). Helmet is a personal firewall for Linux. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- 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
