Jan,

file an issue in our jira, and we don't forget about it.

-Matthias

On Nov 28, 2007 7:09 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Didn't know that XHR is much more secure.
> However, I can see that at least some companies have restrictions to use IE6.
> In case they want IE6 w/ disabled ActiveX, the same issue ramains.
>
> Perhaps... we may introduce a "flag" for doing a fallback to IFrame...
> (like done w/ a context-param)
> Not sure if this is really worth to look at it, right now.
>
> The good thing for IE7 is, that this guy does support XHR :-)
>
> -Matthias
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 6:35 PM, Scott O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Jan,
> >
> > I understand that sometimes companies like this may be unwilling to
> > change for security reasons, but the XHR is actually a more secure
> > implementation.  Because of the nature of iframe, you are open to may
> > more exploits then you will be using XHR.  This is because using XHR
> > requires someone trying to exploit the system to familiar with the
> > application being used whereas in the iframe case they need to know only
> > that they are in a browser.
> >
> > If companies want to run in a secure environment, they really need to
> > not be running IE6, but rather Mozilla or IE7.  As for IE 5.5, I thought
> > Trinidad had a minimum technical requirement of IE6 anyway.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> > Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> > > Hi Jan,
> > >
> > > yes, we switched to XHR with the release of 1.0.2 (and 1.2.2).
> > > There is no way to use IFrame instead of XHR.
> > >
> > > This will remain, because Ajax is pretty common these days and
> > > other JSF-libs have that as well.
> > >
> > > Providing an option to "fallback" might be possible, but not sure if that
> > > will be done.
> > >
> > > Is "IE 5.5" really still supported by M$?
> > > If not, I'd strongly recommend to kick that guy out.
> > > Sure... only the IE7 doesn't require ActiveX for XHR, but IE does.
> > >
> > > I am not aware of a solution for that.
> > >
> > > Do you have any ideas ?
> > >
> > > -Matthias
> > >
> > > On Nov 28, 2007 10:48 AM, Goerss, Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Hello all,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> we noticed that MyFaces Trinidad is changing the PPR mechanism towards 
> > >> real
> > >> AJAX and the XmlHttpRequest object.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> We are using Trinidad is the finance sector. There it is normal that the
> > >> clients use the Internet Explorer with deactivated ActiveX.
> > >>
> > >> Furthermore they use not the newest browsers, so we although need to 
> > >> support
> > >> at least IE 5.5+.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> At the beginning of our project we decide to take Trinidad because of 
> > >> it's
> > >> IFrame-PPR solution.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> It seems as if it is not possible to choose between the two modes: PPR or
> > >> AJAX.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Will this remain? If so why? Otherwise, we think that a lot of Trinidad
> > >> library users will encounter problems with their clientsJ
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance,
> > >>
> > >> Jan
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Matthias Wessendorf
>
> further stuff:
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> mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
>



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