On Thursday 07 June 2001 16:34, Ted Harding wrote:
I'm a little bit puzzled by this. Does the above (quoted from the final paragraph of the URL given) mean that someone who uses Smart Tags when accessing, say, my web page will alter the content of my file which is on my server for my web page?
Or does it simply mean that the view -- on their own computer -- which that person obtains will be different from the view I intended them to get (without altering my original file)?
It's the latter -- they'll see links you don't have without altering the original file (although I understand the link will look different than a standard hyperlink). As was mentioned on slashdot this leads to another potential problem -- what if the smart tag points to a broken link? The clueless user will get mad at you for having broken links on your site, and you have no idea they're there and no way of fixing them. As a side note -- the articles say you can include a meta tag in your page to disable smart linking. The first thing that I did was go to the MS website to find out what that tag was. Funny enough, although preview copies that use smart linking are available, I can't find a single piece of information about how to disable it from my side. Cheers, Chris. -- Chris Clarke security@cfourconsulting.com http://cfourconsulting.com