[ale] Noscript found a couple of scripts I didn't write.

[Edgar Vega]

I have been looking at dojo and some of his javascripts are downloaded from other websites like google-analytics.com/ga.js, and that javascripts can do anything in your website, this issue happend most in dojox toolkit. that may be part of the problem.


> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:46:37 -0400
> From: ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Noscript found a couple of scripts I didn't write.
> 
> Jim Lynch wrote:
> > I have developed an ajax app using Dojo and php to support a club I 
> > belong to.  It's been up and running for a short while but when I went 
> > to it today, the FF plugin noscript asked if I wanted to permit 
> > imiclk.com and abmr.com to run scripts on that page. 
> >
> > Where the dickens did those scripts come from and how'd they get linked 
> > in my page?
> >
> > I did a search of my code and I find no references to them.  By what 
> > magic did they get involved in my site?
> >
> > Any suggestions as to where I should look or what's going on?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim.
> >   
> The problem seems to have gone away.   I was going to set up a user so I 
> could give it out to Mike and after I changed the password, the problem 
> disappeared.  I had cleared cookies and cache a few times before that 
> and it had not helped the problem.  There are only 4 tables involved and 
> they are small, a browse of those tables showed nothing out of the 
> ordinary.  There are tables in other databases, but nothing in my sql 
> touches them. 
> 
> Thanks for all the suggestions, but since it's no longer a problem I 
> don't have anything to troubleshoot. 
> 
> I did have some other tabs open to other sites, is it possible that 
> another site contaminated FF viewing my site?  Or is it possible 
> Noscript was reporting from another page?    I didn't try killing off FF 
> and trying again, which in retrospect I probably should have done.  I'll 
> know next time if there is a next time.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Jim.
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