On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:23:24AM -0400, downie - wrote: > > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:17:13 -0400 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: (FWD) Load external content? message seems inappropriate > > > > [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 ----- > > > > This is a Torbutton message. Your operating system might automatically > open a downloaded file with another application - which might in turn > connect to the internet directly. > Since Torbutton has no way of knowing what your OS is set up to do, it's > an appropriate warning. > GD
That happens to me when downloading a file from Sourceforge with Torbutton 1.2.2 and Firefox 3.5.4. It asks the question above and when i click to Launch External Application Firefox shows the Opening dialog with only the Save or Cancel available. Perhaps launching a (new in Firefox 3.5) download worker thread looks like launching an external application. The Content-Type header i saw trying this twice was application/octet-stream. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.1.5.rar/bitcoin-0.1.5.rar?use_mirror=mesh but i also got application/rar a bunch of times. I tried downloading a .exe file and the header was application/x-msdos-program. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/latest/audacity-win/audacity-win-1.2.6.exe *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
