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Could someone change this to http://richardspens.com/ref/care/inks.htm? The current link (http://richardspens.com/index_m.html?page=ref/care/inks.htm) is a "please allow us to run arbitrary malicious code on your computer" nag page.



That's a serious accusation.

If you actually look at the code it wants to run, there is nothing malicious. It is just a small amount of (clearly written, not at all obfuscated) JavaScript to do innocuous things on the page, such as help with filling out forms, convert between Roman and Arabic numerals, provide a magnifier, and similar things (not all of which are actually used on that particular page).


It isn't a accusation in the first place; permission to run javascript at all includes permission to run arbitrary malicious code, and I never claimed (and don't care) whether they actually exploit that perrmission.

And none of that changes the fact that the link is to the wrong page.


The page is served over HTTP, so it's permission for anybody who might happen to MITM your connection to run whatever code they like.


That page seems better anyhow, so ok.


... It's now pointing at http://richardspens.com/?page=ref/care/inks.htm. "That page" is http://richardspens.com/ref/care/inks.htm with no ?page= in it. The current one is just a bunch of frame cruft around the original nag page.


Ah ok, I've changed the link to that. For me the one just redirects to the other, though.




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