Netscape Security Button

[James Cayz]

All,

	(I've Cc'ed Jeff Bobicki, the author of LibBrowse, to this).

	The Netscape Security Button is particularly insidious.  If you
are using a product like LibBrowse, then Security / Java/Javascript allows
the abusive patron to see and _delete_ two entries - one is the page that
does some of the magic, and another, that looks like a MAC or NIC address
(8 16bit hex code).  Deleting the former is not so bad.  Deleting the
latter causes your browser to not accept any Java at all (or something
similar), until you reload Netscape (and LibBrowse) all over again.  Not
exactly the thing you want library staff to have to do often....

	I must say, that between a combination of WinU 4, Netscape 4.03,
LibBrowse, and some JavaScript, even I am getting happy about producing a
"bullet-proof" Internet Access Station that meets all my requirements...
(Don't ask, the list of requirements is far too long).

	So, I guess the question still stands - any way to kill _just_ the
button (not the whole bar), or make the file it affects unchangeable, even
to Netscape?  CCK is not an option - as a State Agency, we can not agree
to the Netscape licensing for this product, even though it is _free_...

	Thanks in Advance.

	James Cayz

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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Brian D. Jennison wrote:
>Some patrons have been fooling around with the security button in our 
>Netscape 4.03 browsers on our public Internet stations.  They like to set 
>
>(We have already explored removing the whole button bar but decided against 
>it.  And we have yet to find a way to remove only specific buttons on that 
>bar.  Does the CCK allow for that?)