[thelist] Another Personal Firewall Quirk [was JavaScript open.window CGI-B IN question]

[John.Brooking at NA.SAPPI.COM]

Amy Johnson wrote:
>Yes!  That's what it is!  I have recently installed the Norton
>Personal Firewall and it was blocking the popup windows.  Strange how
>...

Just FYI, this reminds me of another little-documented feature of NPF which
I stumbled across a few months ago: it mangles the HTTP_REFERER variable. I
was going to post a tip on this, but it just so happens that Garrett Coakley
already did, and just last week, too. FMI, see his tip entitled "Bogus HTTP
Headers" posted the week of 9/1.

- John
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