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Hi. I've always wanted to look around archive.org, but when I view the safe browsing diagnostic page that noscript makes available, the results are very bad for that site. Here is from today: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diag ... rchive.org

I rarely need to allow permissions for things on the net; I usually just find another source, but that's not possible (I think) with something like archive.org. I have not been able to learn how to use ABE, and have only used the very basic, like below, at a couple of sites.

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Site
Accept from
Deny

I was wondering if someone could help me with an ABE rule that does more than the one above would?

Also, I don't know how to look for danger in the browser console. If I am wary of something, are there things I can check in the console?

thank you!

nvm

I'm sure there are sites where you can be a mod. You're not helpful in your posts, and this isn't a social site. Sorry, just had to say.

guest88243 wrote:I was wondering if someone could help me with an ABE rule that does more than the one above would?

we can't do this without knowing exactly what you want to do

guest88243 wrote:Also, I don't know how to look for danger in the browser console. If I am wary of something, are there things I can check in the console?

as far as noscript goes, it's only good for diagnostics, i.e. telling you what noscript *blocked*, so it won't help you to find "danger"
you can leave it open and watch net traffic, but that probably won't help much either...

Hi Barbaz,

When I wrote the op post, I had been at archive.org and the site didn't function. The links were not clickable and search didn't work either, and I thought the reason was that it needed to be allowed, and when I saw the browsing diagnostic report thought perhaps an abe ruleset might protect me.

After your reply I went back to the site, and it functioned fine, and without javascript, so I don't know what happened, but the site works fine for me now.

Thank you for your offering your help.

Hercuba's daughter,

I am so sorry for my post to you. I have been experiencing mania and it is totally out of character for me to post such an undeserving and unkind post to you, who is just trying to help, and there is no excuse for my doing so. It was wrong of me to do so. Please accept my apologies and as well I apologize to the users and team at noscript.

archive.org is working just fine for me, at least regarding browsing past version of website, without allowing scripts there.
However, if you really need to allow it in NoScript, you can retain some degree of safety against exploits from archived pages by adding this rule in your USER ABE ruleset:

Hi Giorgio,

Thank you for your help. I got an error after copy/pasting that in; it said: line 23:17 no viable alternative at character '\'

Is there a character off or something?

Sorry, my fault, should have been (corrected also in the original post not to confuse casual bystanders)

Thank you for your help Giorgio!