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. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
