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Web Intelligence and cURL

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Dear All,

The documentation for SAV 9.x states that the Web Intelligence service filters content for the platform's main browsers: Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. It does not mention other applications or services and, indeed, most of the apps I have looked into appear to connect directly to the Internet.

While toying with cURL this morning, I noticed that it is blocked by the Web Intelligence service, just like one of the supported browsers…

Is this by design? If so, where can we find a list of applications or services that are protected by the Web Intelligence bundle? What about other command-line tools, or Mail.app, for example?

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    Hello, Christian,

    Actually it should alleviate the problem - when a download is blocked/filtered the malicious stuff is not saved to disk, thus nothing has to be quarantined and hence QM is not involved: By blocking the content remedial action has been taken.

    This, of course, is supposing that Mail.app reacts well to not being able to save an attachement to disk that the server says is there… I am no Apple engineer, but my experience of it makes me rather pessimistic about its abilities to recover gracefully from such a failure.

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    Hello, Christian,

    Actually it should alleviate the problem - when a download is blocked/filtered the malicious stuff is not saved to disk, thus nothing has to be quarantined and hence QM is not involved: By blocking the content remedial action has been taken.

    This, of course, is supposing that Mail.app reacts well to not being able to save an attachement to disk that the server says is there… I am no Apple engineer, but my experience of it makes me rather pessimistic about its abilities to recover gracefully from such a failure.

    :1021395
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