You guys ever consider implementing secure-redirects for linking? In other words, when someone clicks on a link posted on the board, direct them to a dynamically generated page that does a meta-refresh to direct them to the link. This method ensures that there is no referer-tag, the reasoning behind the disabled links on the board at the moment.

As we have it set up now, all external URLs are made "unclickable" altogether (i.e. they are not really links, only underlined text). Only local URLs (to any place on the woodmann server) are clickable. That takes care of the referrer fields quite well too.

And we don't have to worry which are or might not be "friendly."

Regards,

delta, i understand that you're point is that the admins are just lazy
jmi, i don't understand what you mean, though

Heheh. The meta-refresh idea sounds good, though personally I don't how that works, but re the lazy bit -

Oh sure, like not wanting to do a simple copy/paste without even having to un-hXXp *isn't* lazy??

I think the next Mini-Project could be modding Internet Explorer so it allows us to auto-copy-paste-navigate from these links

-nt20

Actually the un-hXXp used to annoy the crap outta me.. with Opera all I need to nowadays do is doubleclick the URL and the friendly popup generated by my mouse offers me a [Go to URL] option. Gotta love that.

disavowed:

We don't want people posting URLs to software vendors while they are discussing reversing their software. Those would be "unfriendly" to our future existence.

Regards,

disavowed, are you completely sure that there are no browsers out there which include pages using meta-refresh redirects in the referer field?

that's a silly question. i could make a browser right now that includes that info in the referer field. however, as far as i know, no real-world browser do this. but again, i haven't tested everything.

Maybe the "as far as I know" and "i haven't tested everything" parts are why we didn't do it, rather than being lazy. And the question isn't more silly than implementing it without knowing would be anyway.

Howdy,

disa has sent me a sample script to play with.
I have not had a chance to play with it yet but, I personally,
feel comfortable with disavowed's skills.
(disa, keep this script on the "down low"

Dont make me get esther out here. He knows the "score"

-cbo-

This is all you need it prevents the "reffer" and it doesn't need to be implemented into the forum.

I really think that instead of suggesting that things should be changed, that we should be grateful to Woodmann, JMI, dELTA and the other admins for keeping this forum running.

Therefore we should interested in protecting it rather than us being to lazy to copy and paste a URL.

This should help I don't remember who wrote it, I just know that I got it off the exetools forum.

All you have to do is highlight the URL right click and select "Open Selected URL" and it will open in a new window even if its hxxp or etc...

delta: point well taken. however, i do know of another board that uses this type of scheme for linking off the board. it shouldn't be hard to use the code i sent woodmann to test the four or five major browsers.

woodmann: understood

undefined: unfortunately, that only works for internet explorer. many users of this board use other web browsers. and i suggested changes to make the board more usable; i would think everyone is grateful to the admins for keeping this place running

disavowed, Thats good point, I guess I am so used to IE that I forget, not everyone uses it.

I apologize.

However that would be my recomendation, if it were for all browsers