[WEB4LIB] Re: database links within frame

[Jerry Kuntz]

Well, I'll try, but PWB is free ;-). Last time I checked MS ISA (Microsoft Proxy) is $5999.

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From: "Thomas Dowling" <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>
Reply-To: tdowling at ohiolink.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:52:07 -0700 (PDT)

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jerry Kuntz" <jkuntz at ansernet.rcls.org>
>> I used to think "framing" was an abomination, until we tried to
>> configure workstations locked down to access licensed database sites
>> only. The Enyclopedia Britannica Online service prominently features
>> the Britannica Web Guide, a catalog to thousands of web sites. It
>> accesses them through frames. Our lockdown method (Public Web
>> Browser's OnlyAccess.txt file) allows those frames to display. Had
>> EB used new windows, we'd have to set up those thousands of domain
>> names...
>>
>> Whether this work through a lockdown via a proxy server, I don't
>> know.
>
>Framing remains an abomination.  Apparently, so is your lockdown software,
>since it provides so obvious a way to defeat it and so inconsistent a way
>to deal with links outbound from permitted sites.  If it was me, I'd ask
>for my money back and move to a proxy (which certainly wouldn't be fooled
>this way).
>
>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>

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Jerry Kuntz
Electronic Resources Consultant
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org

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