Re: What triggers "A script modified the host part ..." warning?

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

novakyu wrote:
> So, when it says "A script modified the host part in a link in the
> page. This can cause serious privacy problems", does that mean:
>
> 1) The link that I clicked to get to the website was such a redirect, or
> 2) IceCat looks through the page looking for Javascript codes that do
> what you described?
It means that the page you got was obtained after you clicked on a link 
and this link was modified by a script.

> The thing is, this behavior seems to happen more often than I would
> expect (I certainly didn't expect it while browsing my own website,
> since it doesn't have any Javascripts and any dynamic processing (some
> shtml and Python) is done on server side), and if it's case (1), I can
> imagine that happening if I follow wrong links to my website, but not
> if it's case (2).
If your web site doesn't have any dynamic page then it is obviously an 
IceCat problem, can you post here how link are coded in your page?  Are 
you sure the server part is not modified in any way?

> P.S. The behavior doesn't seem very reproducible. I just tried loading
> my website again, and this time, it doesn't show the warning. I tried
> visiting through other websites, such as Google (but seeing your
> explanation's Google's click-tracking shouldn't trigger this, since
> they don't try to hide the fact that they redirect you through them)
> or Facebook, but no luck.
Google does it, in fact the modify the link immediately after you click 
on it.  As you can see in the status bar there is reported the original 
link but when you click there, your browser is redirected to another 
google web page.

Giuseppe