[lug] IE java script idiocracies

[Samartha Deva]

Thanks - I found it!

Very interesting, indeed:  Webwasher strips it out! Amazing - at least 
under Windoze, under Linux, it leaves it in. Maybe it's configurable there.


here, that's it, probably still a bit bumpy on some corners:

http://www.mountainbitwarrior.com/RANTS/DMCA/010723

(yesterdays rally in Denver)

Samartha


>On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:03AM -0600, Samartha Deva wrote:
> > Symptom:
> >
> > java script function body disappears on W2000 Netscape and IE.
> > It is there when loading the file in the browser but fails if
> > the page is served through apache under Linux.
> >
> > The whole body stripped!
> >
> > Just the
> > function big_window ( )
> > {}
> >
> > normally, between the {}'s, there are a couple of function
> > statements writing.
> >
> > It looks as if the java engine on W2000 does this.
>
>Why would the Java runtime (or what do you mean by engine)
>even touch this? AFAIK JavaScript is't interpreted by a the
>Java runtime.
>
>Did you try the Linux version from the same Network, with the same
>proxy/gateway setup? This sti^h^h smells like a firewall/proxy
>that removes JavaScript from HTML (not a bad idea given the history
>of security wholes in JavaScript implementations ...).
>
>What do you see if you access the page with telnet?
>
>Ralf
>
> > I had similar stuff earlier, when it could not handle a simple
> > expression and I had to split it up:
> >
> > // IE can't handle this code:
> > // var p = "resizable, width="+(wP+20)+", height="+(hP+50);
> > // var wvar=window.open("",pic_name,p);
> > wP += 23;
> > hP += 60;
> > This was the same for Netscape and IE under W2000 and W98.
> >
> > Is this perhaps a version issue?
> >
> > Linux Netscape, Mozilla, Konqeror does it fine.
> >
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