Re: Re: selective blocking flashs

amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop):
> > > 1) The server sends HTML including Javascript.
> > > > 2) WWWOFFLE is here and hides any flash animations but leaves
> > > >    Javascript unchanged (unless you set disable-script=yes).
> > > > 3) The browser runs the Javascript which writes out some extra HTML
> > > >    into the page.
> > > > 4) The browser displays the modified HTML which includes the flash
> > > >    animation object tags that the Javascript wrote.
> > > > 5) The browser gets the flash animation and displays it.
> > But where is wwwoffle at step 5 ? This  kind of requests certainly
> > should pass a proxy, too ?

> In step 5 the requests will go through WWWOFFLE, but it does not mean
> that WWWOFFLE will be able to detect that they are flash.  If the file
> has the normal .swf filename extension then you can block it using the
> DontGet section of the configuration file.  The disable-flash option
> in the ModifyHTML section of the configuration file cannot be used to
> block this type of flash.

I tried to block swf by both dontcache and dontget.conf here:
< *://*/*.swf>  replacement = /local/dontget/replacement-swf.gif
...and it was not suficient. That's why i wrote to the list.

So this is what i suspected: js loads them as generic database files (only by ID names).

I assume browser detect the downloaded files mime-type, to activate the plugin.
There could be a browser option to selective block swf ... anybody knows a browser who can do this ?
(Probably i can disable the mime-type. But then i have no selectiviness.)

Can't wwwoffle detect the mime-type the same way as the browser, and filter it throgh dontget and
dontcache ?

Any other idea ?


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