At 11:24 AM -0800 11/25/06, Navid wrote:
Thanks guys. I found out (or he actually revealed to me) what he
wants his members to download
without their knowledge. I refused to work on his project. I knew it
sounded fishy.
Navid:
Way to go -- not everything is worth the money.
Besides, I'm not sure that it's possible anyway. I know that we (via
php/js) can download to the user's computer text in the form of a
cookie in the background and thus the operation is somewhat hidden
from the user. But we can't do anything with the cookie other than
detect/read it the next time the user passes by -- and that's only if
the user accepts cookies.
I guess one could work out a scheme where you could have a link that
appears to be something else but when clicked it downloads a file,
virus have been known spread that way. But most/some browsers show
you when a download has been started and you have to do something to
unpack it -- or at least that's my understanding.
In any event, if someone placed something on my machine without my
knowledge, I would be pissed -- that's not a good thing.
Cheers,
tedd
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