Download only can be openend, not saved. Security risk?

do you have the link to that web installer, to see it can be replicated or if there is a workaround? I agree in principle it is a bad practice to force users to run instead of saving it first.

 

strange, from java.com all can be saved in IE8/9

 

replicated it in IE but not FF. I suspect because of javascript being enabled in IE but not FF.

 

replicated from that link, only happens in IE but not FF (with JS enabled) - seems browser sniffing

 

Great. Now that Sun is doing this, it becomes "acceptable" and one more way to allow the miscreant social engineers to trick users into installing malware. WAY TO GO SUN!!!

I only use on demand scans, and do LUA/SRP. So now if I want to update java, I have to login as admin, start my browser and navigate to their site and run the executable directly instead of save and scan as a limited user? Doesn't sound like an improvement in security to me.

 

I didn't see anything special in the code, seems like a IE 8 'feature'.

"Open in new tab" works as it should(i.e gives the save option)




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It's Oracle now btw.

 

Yeah, it's a 'feature'

 

Gasp! - Yeah! - I just found out when I investigated this... Sun used to provide through FTP also but I can't find that now. (old links listed do not work)

P.S.
If Oracle bought Sun I imagine they must have paid a bundle because I can't see Sun sell for cheap.
Sun was a great company and no matter what I don't think that Oracle will be as great as Sun was (attitude wise)(my personal opinion).

 

By the way :
You can download and save from the Dutch Java page , just use the link underneath the red picture "Gratis Java-Download" where it says :
"Niet het goede besturingssysteem? Klik hier voor alle Java-downloads." (then you will get access to manual downloads)

 

How could you miss that news, under a rock at the time? 7.4 billion...

Oracle is the better company, economical speaking.
Sun couldn't manage their balancing act of offering open source software for free and yet making money with their server and service biz.

Fans of Sun's free software have already seen the true face of Oracle. As a consequence opensolaris and openoffice have been forked to remain free and independent from Oracle so it doesn't look too bad. Java of course is a bit of an uncertainty with the Google/dalvik lawsuit.

Sorry for OT. Will leave it at that.

 

No , just doesn't read, listen, or see the news that much generally unless it comes up while I surf the net. (I am not very happy with a lot of the socalled news)

Yeah ! , my point exactly. That was my point , Sun was not just there for the money alone , I think that they were about much more... I'll miss them..