SP2 blocks 'active' page

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My problem/question seems to be identical to that of the previous poster
(Richard Martino). My homepage contains a tree-structured menu controlled by
javascripts (in combination with a stylesheet). IE6 now regards this as an
active page and blocks the menu dropdown function until I explicitly
unblock.
For the local version this is an annoyance. On the web, I should like to
think that my site can be viewed without this blocking. Surely there must be
hundreds of web pages out there that use a similar technique.

Is there anything I can do such that IE6 SP2 does not regard my web page as
a threat?

Thanks
 
Hi Peter,

It's surely a FAQ. See here for "Mark of the Web" workaround:

http://www.winxptutor.com/lmzunlock.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


My problem/question seems to be identical to that of the previous poster
(Richard Martino). My homepage contains a tree-structured menu controlled by
javascripts (in combination with a stylesheet). IE6 now regards this as an
active page and blocks the menu dropdown function until I explicitly
unblock.
For the local version this is an annoyance. On the web, I should like to
think that my site can be viewed without this blocking. Surely there must be
hundreds of web pages out there that use a similar technique.

Is there anything I can do such that IE6 SP2 does not regard my web page as
a threat?

Thanks
 
Thanks, Ramesh
I think I erroneously assumed that the problem I described would affect my
homepage on the web. This appears not be the case. I can live with the page
being blocked when opened from the local hard drive (Local Machine Zone).
(So far, I have not been able to get the "Mark of the Web" workaround to
work.)

Peter

Hi Peter,

It's surely a FAQ. See here for "Mark of the Web" workaround:

http://www.winxptutor.com/lmzunlock.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


My problem/question seems to be identical to that of the previous poster
(Richard Martino). My homepage contains a tree-structured menu controlled by
javascripts (in combination with a stylesheet). IE6 now regards this as an
active page and blocks the menu dropdown function until I explicitly
unblock.
For the local version this is an annoyance. On the web, I should like to
think that my site can be viewed without this blocking. Surely there must be
hundreds of web pages out there that use a similar technique.

Is there anything I can do such that IE6 SP2 does not regard my web page as
a threat?

Thanks
 
Hi Peter,

Please post the "Mark of the Web" code that you've used.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


Thanks, Ramesh
I think I erroneously assumed that the problem I described would affect my
homepage on the web. This appears not be the case. I can live with the page
being blocked when opened from the local hard drive (Local Machine Zone).
(So far, I have not been able to get the "Mark of the Web" workaround to
work.)

Peter

Hi Peter,

It's surely a FAQ. See here for "Mark of the Web" workaround:

http://www.winxptutor.com/lmzunlock.htm

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


My problem/question seems to be identical to that of the previous poster
(Richard Martino). My homepage contains a tree-structured menu controlled by
javascripts (in combination with a stylesheet). IE6 now regards this as an
active page and blocks the menu dropdown function until I explicitly
unblock.
For the local version this is an annoyance. On the web, I should like to
think that my site can be viewed without this blocking. Surely there must be
hundreds of web pages out there that use a similar technique.

Is there anything I can do such that IE6 SP2 does not regard my web page as
a threat?

Thanks
 
Ramesh said:
Hi Peter,


Please post the "Mark of the Web" code that you've used.
Click to expand...

I've implemented the feature, but maybe you can shed some light on how
blocking active content running on the local machine is really going to
work when it appears anyone wishing to get the code to run in the less
protected Internet zone can just add the following comment to the header
of each HTML page...

<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
 
Hi David,

There is always an other side of a "workaround". Yes, it's possible by someone to add the Mark of the Web code in a rogue html page and run the script or ActiveX code in LMZ.

Why not try this question here, David? IEBlog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie
--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


David Gugick said:
Hi Peter,


Please post the "Mark of the Web" code that you've used.
Click to expand...

I've implemented the feature, but maybe you can shed some light on how
blocking active content running on the local machine is really going to
work when it appears anyone wishing to get the code to run in the less
protected Internet zone can just add the following comment to the header
of each HTML page...

<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
 
Please post the "Mark of the Web" code that you've used.
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
Click to expand...

I count 14 characters in About:Internet ;o
Is the count supposed to be 0 based or 1 based?

BTW what are you expecting that to do?
 
Ramesh said:
Hi David,

There is always an other side of a "workaround". Yes, it's possible
by someone to add the Mark of the Web code in a rogue html page and
run the script or ActiveX code in LMZ.

Why not try this question here, David? IEBlog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie
Click to expand...

Here's another problem: I added the Mark of the Web to each HTML, XML,
and HTC page we generate in one of our products. And when we add our
URL to the list of trusted sites in IE, everything works fine on Windows
XP SP2 systems. However, we just ran a test on a Windows 2000 client
running IE 6 and when it displays these pages it kicks out an error
saying that access was denied to the HTC file. However the file is
there.

If I remove the "<!-- saved from" comment in the <HEAD>, the page
displays fine. I even tried adding our web site to the trusted list in
IE on that PC, but it did no good.

So my question is: Is the mark of the web only going to work on some
systems and break content on others? If not, what could be the problem?
 
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