Matthew Cline wrote:
> I have ad.doubleclick.net in my list of sites that aren't allowed to load
> images. I thought that this would keep Mozilla from even trying to load
> images from Doubleclick. However, Mozilla still tries to connect to
> Doublleclick, since I I get a "connection refused" dialog when it attempts
> the connection (I also have doubleclick.net resolved to 127.0.0.1, so a
> connection can never happen). So why does Mozilla try to connect, when
> it's not supposed to display images anyways?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Most ads these days are contained in an IFRAME which contain the ad.
Mozilla will try and load the contents of the IFRAME as this will be
HTML residing on doubleclick.net, it'll load the HTML but it will not
load the images.