[1653] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape && FTP sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (oneel@arupa.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Fri Mar 15 08:31:01 1996
From: oneel@arupa.gsfc.nasa.gov
To: ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 05:31:59 -0500 (EST)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603141704.MAA19782@panix.com> from "Liz Stokes" at Mar 14, 96 12:04:36 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Hi,
For some bizzaro reson if you go to http://home.netscape.com/ndx.html
rather than http://home.netscape.com/ your javascript disabled netscape 2.01
will give you the netscape home page.
thankx.
bruce
>
> Rob Jenson wrote:
> > The Netscape site is also JavaScript-disabled browser unfriendly.
> > Their home page is blank if you have JavaScript patched out of
> > Netscape Navigator 2.0. Makes it a tad difficult to find out when
> > the next release (with the requisite "Disable JavaScript" option) will
> > be available. In the meantime, I guess we'll just have to use XMosaic
> > { just ignore the spotch at the top of your screen --- that's
> > frustrated Frames or JavaScript } or Netscape 1.1 to visit Netscape's
> > site and find out if they have released the next Navigator 2.0x with
> > improved security.
>
> You can just 'view source'...
>
> > ObWebSecurity:
> >
> > Is there anybody from Netscape monitoring this list who
> > can confirm or deny that Navigator 2.0x will be released "very
> > soon now" with the capability to disable JavaScript as well as
> > Java in the "Security Options"?
>
> I've just installed 2.01 and still get a blank page for netscape home...
>
> --
> Liz Stokes
> webmistress@panix.com
>
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