On 8/13/12 5:22 AM, Joe Rotello wrote: > On 8/13/2012 6:52 AM, Philip TAYLOR wrote: >> >> Joe Rotello wrote: >> >>> JR Personal Reflection Bottom line: End-users who fully and >>> intentionally disable the likes of Flash plug-in, PHP, Java and even >>> JavaScript browser operations are in reality doing more to "damage" >>> their browser operations and shut themselves out of a great many needful >>> and useful web-sites world-wide. Many users who do the above and walk >>> away from those options then wonder why a great many web-sites and pages >>> no longer work or display properly, then start suspecting the browser or >>> the OS, etc. >> >> Whilst I have a /certain/ (but by no means unequivocal) sympathy with >> your position, I am completely at a loss to know how a user might seek >> to "disable ... PHP". PHP is a server-side technology, just like >> ASP and ASP.NET; how can this possibly be disabled client-side ? >> >> I would also argue that the vast majority of those who "do the above >> and walk away from those options" do not "wonder why a great many >> web-sites and pages no longer work or display properly" -- they know >> why, and they are prepared to live with this in order to satisfy their >> own security concerns and/or paranoia. > > Like it or not, in many modern browsers, esp. those allowing access to > "about all" the settings, one can disrupt PHP operations, essentially > switching PHP execution off. Can be done in FF, for example, have seen > it accomplished in the OS with Internet Explorer, etc. > > Thankfully, people do NOT usually do this, nor should they, yet it can > be terribly exciting to troubleshoot a bad web experience and find out > that this kind of PHP disabling has been done. > > Yes, indeed, I tend to agree that many of those who do the above know > full well, or believe they do, of what they are doing, so PHP failures > or web-disasters should not come as a surprise to them. > > Joe >
With the AdBlock Plus extension, it might be possible to block some PHP sites with a filter containing *.php. However, many Web sites today omit the file extension on the URIs; in that case, the filter will not work. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
