Michael Kaply wrote: > Felix Miata wrote:
> > "The connection was refused when attempting to connect to ads.web.aol.com." > > These popups (on visiting eBay) I have no need to see over and over and > > over and over and over and over, much less ever at all. I have to click > > OK three times on each page. Make them go away. > > I can't think of appropriate keyword(s) to search for an existing bug. I > > suppose component would be network, but what keyword(s)? How to describe > > a new bug if necessary? > > \mptn\etc\hosts (a 9920 line file on my system - see > > <http://www.smartin-designs.com/>) contains in part: > > 127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com > This is actually what should happen if you do not have a web server > running on a your local machine. I can't believe this. It works fine for 2.02. I don't see anything at the indicated above URL to indicate web server on local machine is required for the hosts file to deny access to unwanted content. What is meant by having a web server on my local machine? > Previously we had a bug that connecting to localhost with no webserver > running would produce no error at all. For embedded offsite content no error at all is probably the best behavior. > A cross platform fix went in that also fixed this problem. > As far as I know, in order to use this trick properly, you need to have > a webserver running that connects and returns nothing. How is this done, and why is it necessary if 2.02 works fine? > See: > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100776 > and > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106188 Way over my head. Maybe http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28586 is on track to handle this? I'm a user, not a programmer. All I know is I don't need or want popups when adservers are unreachable, regardless of the reason why they are unreachable. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain. Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net/
