[Forwarding to the list since this address isn't subscribed. My first question is: what is the content-type header provided by the webserver? Perhaps it was something that your browser recognized and thought it couldn't display by itself?
My second thought is: this might be a Torbutton bug, and might want to go into bugs.torproject.org. --Roger] ----- Forwarded message from [email protected] ----- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:11:52 -0500 Subject: Load external content? message seems inappropriate From: Thomas Anderson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] I was playing around with Tor Browser to see what it was like and tried to download a small 1mb file from a server of mine. In the process, I got the following message: --------------------- An external application is needed to handle: http://domain.tld/path/to/my/file.ext NOTE: External applications are NOT Tor safe by default and can unmask you! --------------------- My question is... why is an external package being loaded? All I want to do is to download a file via HTTP to my hard drive. I don't want to open it up in whatever application would be appropriate and even if I did, it's not as if that application would be the one that downloads the file - Tor Browser would still download it and just place it in the Windows temporary directory or where ever. All in all, the message seems inappropriate. Sure, if I was downloading, say, an *.exe, that *.exe might connect me to the internet, but even then, the message seems misleading, since, at that point, it's not that an external package is needed to handle the file so much as the file *is* an external package. ----- End forwarded message ----- *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
