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by **mike** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Is there good firewall software for Linux that will also block Netscape
pop-ups (like when you load somebody's page and some idiotic pop-up comes
onto your screen)?

Thanks...

Mike
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by **Dances With Cro** » Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:53:08

>Is there good firewall software for Linux that will also block Netscape
>pop-ups (like when you load somebody's page and some idiotic pop-up comes
>onto your screen)?

That is not really a firewall matter. All the traffic necessary for
generating a pop-up can take place over port 80, and if you block port
80, you are going to have some very unhappy users. I suppose you could
set up the Squid proxy server and have it search through all HTTP
traffic for the Javascript commands that pop up additional windows and
silently terminate them with extreme prejudice. Your call, but the
easiest way to fix this is most likely to disable Javascript within
Netscape.

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by **Gregory Spa** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Quote:
>Is there good firewall software for Linux that will also block Netscape
>pop-ups (like when you load somebody's page and some idiotic pop-up comes
>onto your screen)?

The only way I've found that exists is to disable javascript. There *IS* a
modified version of mosaic out there that can be configured as a proxy to
"rewrite" web pages as you view them. That will do what you want.

Do a search on "filtering proxy" on google. Here's a hit that may do
what you wish:

http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/fwl/httpf/httpf.html

I have considered writing a proxy for just this purpose (filtering
out only certain javascript calls...like that annoying onopen() and
onclose() crap). I just haven't had the time.

>Thanks...

>Mike
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