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> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:17:13 -0400 > From: arma@xxxxxxx > To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: (FWD) Load external content? message seems inappropriate > > [Forwarding to the list since this address isn't subscribed. > > My first question is: what is the content-type header provided by the > webserver? Perhaps it was something that your browser recognized and > thought it couldn't display by itself? > > My second thought is: this might be a Torbutton bug, and might want > to go into bugs.torproject.org. > > --Roger] > > ----- Forwarded message from owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ----- > > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:11:52 -0500 > Subject: Load external content? message seems inappropriate > From: Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@xxxxxxxxx> > To: or-talk@xxxxxxxx > > I was playing around with Tor Browser to see what it was like and > tried to download a small 1mb file from a server of mine. In the > process, I got the following message: > > --------------------- > > An external application is needed to handle: > > http://domain.tld/path/to/my/file.ext > > NOTE: External applications are NOT Tor safe by default and can unmask you! > > --------------------- > > My question is... why is an external package being loaded? All I > want to do is to download a file via HTTP to my hard drive. I don't > want to open it up in whatever application would be appropriate and > even if I did, it's not as if that application would be the one that > downloads the file - Tor Browser would still download it and just > place it in the Windows temporary directory or where ever. > > All in all, the message seems inappropriate. Sure, if I was > downloading, say, an *.exe, that *.exe might connect me to the > internet, but even then, the message seems misleading, since, at that > point, it's not that an external package is needed to handle the file > so much as the file *is* an external package. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > This is a Torbutton message. Your operating system might automatically open a downloaded file with another application - which might in turn connect to the internet directly. Since Torbutton has no way of knowing what your OS is set up to do, it's an appropriate warning. GD New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. |