Active Content suggestions

[jjohnson]

First, I'd like to like to commend you on the work done so far and the features listed in the .plan file. I'm really excited about your plugin system and at first I thought maybe I'd do some development but I first I thought I would pitch my ideas and see if you'd like to incorporate them.

What I'd like to see is a new paradigm around active content options. Instead of the enable/disable/prompt settings I sugges this:

Disabled
Prompt (Restricted)
Enabled (Restricted)
Unrestricted

The terminaology isn't important but the idea is. Following this you'd have several "restriction options". For example, here's how I would handle cookies:

Disabled
Prompt (Restricted)
Enabled (Restricted)
Unrestricted
----------
Block Third Party
Block Non-session
Delete after session / Force all to be session

The first set is a radio group - only one option can be selected; the second set are just options that can all be toggled indepently. If the user selected disabled or unrestricted the "restrition options" would be grayed out. If it was prompt or enabled the options would be available. So, I could select "prompt" + "block third party" and I would receive a prompt only for first part cookies (cookies originating at the site).

Here's Referrers, encapsulating the root suggestion already selected:

Disabled
Enabled (Restricted)
Unrestricted
----------
Block Third Party
Send Root Only

Here's Popups:

Disabled
Prompt
Enabled (Restricted)
Unrestricted
----------
Smart Blocking - disables onload, onunload, launched from javascript, etc, allows windows from clicked links


I have more suggestions but they should probably be in a separate post.

[RISC OS]

I believe Agnitum view Outpost primarily as a packet filter and not a content filter, so it probably take time to for them to change the plugins in this way.

This is probably why (unlike Atguard that had some similar features) all the content filtering are self contained plugins. This allows agnitum to just work on the firewall engine without needing to work on the content filters which have a lower priority. As they are plugins anyone can write there own if they don't like the way one works.

Maybe in v2 the plugins have been modified to include some of the features of Agnitums plan. I think in one post recemtly Mikhail said that the plugins had been changed a bit too.

[Mikhail]

Jjohnson, thank you for suggestion, we will think how to implement it better. However active content blocking is not primary task for personal firewall and we will enhace it only after packet filter itself.