[thelist] Norton Firewall blocking Javascript

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