JayK
October 19th, 2003, 07:17 AM
Since there are quite a lot of posts about browsers, let's look at Beonix.
What is this browser you ask? It sure looks like Mozilla.
http://www.beonex.com/'
It's based off the distribution of Mozilla 1.0. but with some additonal security and privacy tweaks. This means it includes not only the browser but also email, and composer.
There.s a post about cookie handling, now here's one about referrer handling. Can any browser beat the flexibility in Beonix for referrer handling?
In Beonix there is a seperate UI for refferers. The first 3 options are available in current builds of Mozilla and Firebird but you need to alter them manually.
What's new are the next 3.
But what are "third party servers" ?
Normally when you visited www.secondsite.com by clicking a link on firstsite.com , www. firstsite.com will appear in the logs of secondsite.com as a referrer.
Disenable third party servers will cause a null/blank referrer to be sent in such cases, while allowing referrers to be sent normally within the same host.
This can be very useful if you dont like webmasters learning about how you found your site, espically search engines which show the search terms in the url.
It does *allow* referrers when moving from www.wildersecurity.com/index.html to www.wildersecurity.com/whatever.html. The idea is it belongs to the same guy anyway, so it doesnt matter really.
Some sites are pretty evil, and they block you if they detect this. Faking referrers would involve sending urls based on the top host name. Eg if you visit www.examplesite.com/test/test.htm, it will receive www.examplesite.com as the referrer.
This can help avoid most but not all of the problems of such hostile sites.
Some other nice tweaks with the mail client in Beonix.
Mailnews
* All possibly problematic HTML is removed, vastly improving readability, security and privacy
o This prevents almost all of the common security and privacy threats while reading email, incl. the recent flood of worms.
o Manually opening attachments, however, is outside the scope of Beonex Communicator and still dangerous.
* JavaScript completely disabled
What is this browser you ask? It sure looks like Mozilla.
http://www.beonex.com/'
It's based off the distribution of Mozilla 1.0. but with some additonal security and privacy tweaks. This means it includes not only the browser but also email, and composer.
There.s a post about cookie handling, now here's one about referrer handling. Can any browser beat the flexibility in Beonix for referrer handling?
In Beonix there is a seperate UI for refferers. The first 3 options are available in current builds of Mozilla and Firebird but you need to alter them manually.
What's new are the next 3.
But what are "third party servers" ?
Normally when you visited www.secondsite.com by clicking a link on firstsite.com , www. firstsite.com will appear in the logs of secondsite.com as a referrer.
Disenable third party servers will cause a null/blank referrer to be sent in such cases, while allowing referrers to be sent normally within the same host.
This can be very useful if you dont like webmasters learning about how you found your site, espically search engines which show the search terms in the url.
It does *allow* referrers when moving from www.wildersecurity.com/index.html to www.wildersecurity.com/whatever.html. The idea is it belongs to the same guy anyway, so it doesnt matter really.
Some sites are pretty evil, and they block you if they detect this. Faking referrers would involve sending urls based on the top host name. Eg if you visit www.examplesite.com/test/test.htm, it will receive www.examplesite.com as the referrer.
This can help avoid most but not all of the problems of such hostile sites.
Some other nice tweaks with the mail client in Beonix.
Mailnews
* All possibly problematic HTML is removed, vastly improving readability, security and privacy
o This prevents almost all of the common security and privacy threats while reading email, incl. the recent flood of worms.
o Manually opening attachments, however, is outside the scope of Beonex Communicator and still dangerous.
* JavaScript completely disabled