Meta Redirection Question

[pdun459]

In NoScript's options (version 1.9.5), "Forbid META redirections inside <NOSCRIPT> elements" is listed in both the Notifications tab and the Advanced>Untrusted tab. Since they are in different places I'm assuming they do different things. Would someone be able to tell me what the difference is?

Also, I was wondering if a domain is whitelisted, will redirections still be forbidden if this is checked?

Appreciate any help. I've had this software installed for a few days now and slowly muddling my way through.

[Alan Baxter]

The Notifications option merely determines whether you are notified about a forbidden redirection. It does not control whether the redirection is forbidden. META redirections inside <NOSCRIPT> elements can only occur if javascript isn't Allowed, so it doesn't affect whitelisted sites. Note that it only affects META redirections inside <NOSCRIPT> elements, not redirections in general. I've had good luck leaving it with the default value, unchecked. Try checking it if you like and see what happens. Leave the Notifications option checked so you can see when it happens.

By the way. I recommend updating to the current version, NoScript 1.6.2, available only from the NoScript page http://noscript.net/getit#direct.

[Grumpy Old Lady]

Those meta redirections used to be a lot more common than now.
In my browsing experience, they were all to rather annoying messages telling me that I was blocking JS. I knew that - I had installed NS myself, and I could even use a knife and fork safely.

These days, webmasters have good plain "this site needs js for some/all functions" type messages on the page you arrive at when JS is turned off, so the only meta redirection within a JS element that I've encountered recently is the G images search redirection.
I keep the thing toggled on because I'm a grumpy old lady on a rural connection with fairly high latency - don't need unnecessary page changes.

[pdun459]

Ahh, okay. Thanks for those helpful replies, now I understand it. When I was on ebay today it kept telling me Javascript was disabled and kept trying to redirect me.

I kinda figured one of them was a notification only but I wasn't sure.

Thanks a million!

[Grumpy Old Lady]

Ahh, okay. Thanks for those helpful replies, now I understand it. When I was on ebay today it kept telling me Javascript was disabled and kept trying to redirect me.

I kinda figured one of them was a notification only but I wasn't sure.

Thanks a million!

There's no guarantee that all redirections like this are harmless, of course; you still have to keep your wits about you and research everything that NS alerts you to.
But you appear to be approaching the NS learning curve with a good amount of sense :-)
Don't hesitate to come back with examples - screenshots and tools|error console messages from NS are always useful -
of things you need help with. I have no hesitation in claiming that this forum would be the best support for any product on the net.

[therube]

Bank of America Online Banking, up until just the other day, used to control its' automatic (timeout) logout feature using JavaScript. So if JavaScript were disabled, you could keep your account screens open indefinitely. They have now changed that. I still have to keep JavaScript disabled, but now I also have to have META redirections inside <NOSCRIPT> elements Forbidden.

(One website I frequent when you reply to topic, the Submit also goes through a META redirect. Its on a Snitz forum. Often MS will use META redirects if you were to load pages with JavaScript disabled.)