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<br>> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:17:13 -0400<br>> From: arma@mit.edu<br>> To: or-talk@freehaven.net<br>> Subject: (FWD) Load external content? message seems inappropriate<br>> <br>> [Forwarding to the list since this address isn't subscribed.<br>> <br>> My first question is: what is the content-type header provided by the<br>> webserver? Perhaps it was something that your browser recognized and<br>> thought it couldn't display by itself?<br>> <br>> My second thought is: this might be a Torbutton bug, and might want<br>> to go into bugs.torproject.org.<br>> <br>> --Roger]<br>> <br>> ----- Forwarded message from owner-or-talk@freehaven.net -----<br>> <br>> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:11:52 -0500<br>> Subject: Load external content? message seems inappropriate<br>> From: Thomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com><br>> To: or-talk@seul.org<br>> <br>> I was playing around with Tor Browser to see what it was like and<br>> tried to download a small 1mb file from a server of mine. In the<br>> process, I got the following message:<br>> <br>> ---------------------<br>> <br>> An external application is needed to handle:<br>> <br>> http://domain.tld/path/to/my/file.ext<br>> <br>> NOTE: External applications are NOT Tor safe by default and can unmask you!<br>> <br>> ---------------------<br>> <br>> My question is... why is an external package being loaded? All I<br>> want to do is to download a file via HTTP to my hard drive. I don't<br>> want to open it up in whatever application would be appropriate and<br>> even if I did, it's not as if that application would be the one that<br>> downloads the file - Tor Browser would still download it and just<br>> place it in the Windows temporary directory or where ever.<br>> <br>> All in all, the message seems inappropriate. Sure, if I was<br>> downloading, say, an *.exe, that *.exe might connect me to the<br>> internet, but even then, the message seems misleading, since, at that<br>> point, it's not that an external package is needed to handle the file<br>> so much as the file *is* an external package.<br>> <br>> ----- End forwarded message -----<br>> <br><br>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.<br>Since Torbutton has no way of knowing what your OS is set up to do, it's an appropriate warning.<br>GD<br> <br /><hr />New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx?CBID=wl&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_pcscout:102009' target='_new'>Learn more.</a></body>
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