bigguy

Hey yall I have three questions but the topic only says one. But anyways here is the first. With my download blocker I am wanting to make it more secure then my one in vb6. In the first ones I made it swrite the settings to an INI file. With my new one I'd like it to creat a manifest file or even write the settings to the registry whichever is more secure. Secondly, To find th FireFox download window in vb6 I used FindWindowByPartialTitle. Using EnumWindows. How woudl I do this in .net since the firefox window title is always changing ( Opening File being dled).
Finally, in my other post ("Using FindWindow in VB.NET 05"), daemon suggested I not do a client side program. So I sarted thinking alright I'll do one server side and then the client program looks at the server for all settigns and everything else it needs. Well then I remeber our server is running linux. So my last question is is developing in mono different form developing in windows .net? I mean is the syntax the same and stuff? Thanks again yall for all yall's help

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Dameon

My point was that not only is a custom client-side program easily circumvented, but also that server-side solutions exist already. Squid operating as a transparent proxy (so that the client can't opt out of it) with some filtering rules would work just fine.

Out of curiosity, what were you planning to write to run server-side to block downloads? You mentioned something about settings, which I can't relate to the problem at hand.

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bigguy

No no, I figures it would be more secure, to have a program runnign server side, with the settings for the client side program. Settings = password to allow downloads, what to block, and stuff like that. Then when the client computer logged on it would connect to the server and the blocking would start. That way the client couldnt search through files on the computer and go "Hey, that looks interesting. They open it up and there is all the settigns for the program. Thats why I was askign which do you think would be better Manifest file or Reg. Value. Cause I['m not that good in .net yet and I know it would take me a while to learn about winsock so thats what my question about Manifest or Reg Value.

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