[thelist] Norton Firewall blocking Javascript
Quedgeley Church Site
webmaster at quedgeleychurch.org.uk
Tue Sep 2 09:53:09 CDT 2003
Hi
I've some emails from a guy who was having viewing my sites and who now
claims its a function of his Norton firewall blocking Javascript in out of
the box mode.
It allows through the declaration:
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript"><!--
function openNewWindow(linkURI)
{
var newWin;
newWin = window.open(linkURI, null,
"directories=yes,location=yes,menubar=yes,favorites=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,titlebar=yes,toolbar=yes")
;
}
// --></SCRIPT>
<BODY>
<div id="header">
<a href="http://www.cofe.anglican.org" class="floatleft" onclick="{
openNewWindow('http://www.cofe.anglican.org'); return false; }">
<img src="images/small_cofelogo.png"
alt="Logo of, and link to, official Church of England Site"
title="Logo of, and link to, official Church of England Site">
</a>
but stops after the <BODY> presumably when it sees a packet containing the
onclick attribute invoking the function.
I useZonealarm and it doesn't quibble about the code. I use it becuase
target="_blank" is not valid 4.01 strict outside framesets (ugh!).
I got it from a contributor to this list after a discussion on how best to
do it over a year ago.
So can anyone confirm that this is out of the box behaviour not someone
being over-zealous and what do you guys suggest as a way round it?
What is the URL I hear you ask? www.cofe-st-thomas-dudley.org.uk,
www.quedgeleychurch.org.uk both fail for my correspondent.
Thanks
Keith
--
Keith Underdown
Q Consultancy
acting for the Clergy, Wardens & PCC of St James Quedgeley
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