Web Intelligence and cURL

Question

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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bobcook · Accepted Answer

francoisjoseph wrote:

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? 
 
 Its by design. The full list is:

Safari 
 Firefox 
 Chrome 
 Opera 
 OmniWeb 
 Camino 
 Cruz 
 curl 
 wget 
 telnet 
 
 Some of those are rather esoteric and we should probably review the list again - there are many Chromium derivatives that we aren't filtering. We also shouldn't be filtering telnet, its really not a browser even though you can technically get web content with it. Overly agressive developer decision.

We've debated whether to filter mail applications. There is a lot of risky/spammy HTML junk that we could be blocking simply by treating mail clients as browsers. On the other hand, we should probably make it optional for anyone who wants to see their email unfiltered.

These are awesome questions! Thanks! :1021194

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