In Firefox, NoScript complains that CalDAVZap and CardDAVMate require a script from inf-it.com.
Is this script really required?
-- Johan
No,
our clients NOT download any scripts from inf-it.com ... there is only a version checking which downloads a XML and compares your local version with the number from the XML.
The XML urls are:
http://www.inf-it.com/versioncheck/CardDavMATE/ http://www.inf-it.com/versioncheck/CalDavZAP/
the queries from our clients look like:
http://www.inf-it.com/versioncheck/CardDavMATE/?v=YOUR_CURRENT_VERSION http://www.inf-it.com/versioncheck/CalDavZAP/?v=YOUR_CURRENT_VERSION
I use the YOUR_CURRENT_VERSION for statistical purposes (to know how many % of users use the latest version).
JM
On Feb 21, 2013, at 8:19 PM, Johan Vromans jvromans@squirrel.nl wrote:
In Firefox, NoScript complains that CalDAVZap and CardDAVMate require a script from inf-it.com.
Is this script really required?
-- Johan
Ján Máté jan.mate@inf-it.com writes:
the queries from our clients look like:
http://www.inf-it.com/versioncheck/CardDavMATE/?v=YOUR_CURRENT_VERSION http://www.inf-it.com/versioncheck/CalDavZAP/?v=YOUR_CURRENT_VERSION
I use the YOUR_CURRENT_VERSION for statistical purposes (to know how many % of users use the latest version).
Just a friendly advice: In general, it is not appreciated when an application 'phones home' without a very clear notice in the accompanying documentation, and even then it should be done only when explicitly opted-in.
-- Johan
Hi Johan,
On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Johan Vromans jvromans@squirrel.nl wrote:
Just a friendly advice: In general, it is not appreciated when an application 'phones home' without a very clear notice in the accompanying documentation, and even then it should be done only when explicitly opted-in.
99% of software I use calls to home to check for the latest version. This functionality is enabled by default in nearly all new software, because there is no other way to force users to upgrade (if you show them a "new version is available" message, it force them to upgrade sooner or later :-)))). This functionality was added because I've got a ton of bugreports for old version of CardDavMATE (but these were usually fixed few months back in newer versions).
There is also a "check for new version" configuration option so this functionality is NOT HIDDEN (it is also explicitly listed at the web site - "automatic detection of software updates"). But if you want to completely disable it, use:
globalNewVersionNotifyUsers=null;
JM
Ján Máté jan.mate@inf-it.com writes:
99% of software I use calls to home to check for the latest version.
Yes, a lot has changed the last 10 years...
There is also a "check for new version" configuration option
I'd expected this but could not find something related in the config.js.
Maybe you should add this to the config.js:
// Disable phone home for version checking. //globalNewVersionNotifyUsers=null;
Thanks for your patience.
-- Johan
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