Determining Trusted Site using javascript

[dlawner]

Anyone know a way to determine if a particular url is a trusted site
using javascript? I need to validate that a site is trusted before the
user logs on.

[Jeremy J Starcher]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:55:45 -0800, dlawner wrote:

Anyone know a way to determine if a particular url is a trusted site
using javascript? I need to validate that a site is trusted before the
user logs on.

Do you mean Trusted Site as Internet Explorer has categories, or sites
that are trusted by a particular set or rules?

If you mean the first, you might want to ask on a MS forum if one can
access that data through MS scripting objects.

That information is not available in the Javascript standard library.

(*) Ok, there isn't a real standard library -- I know what I mean just
not how to phrase it.

[Bart Van der Donck]

[e-mail] wrote:

Anyone know a way to determine if a particular url is a trusted
site using javascript? I need to validate that a site is trusted
before the user logs on.

Do you mean a website that connects over TLS (previously SSL) ? In
that case you could check whether the URL starts with 'https://'
rather than 'http://'.

if (/^https:\/\//i.test(self.location.href))
alert('This page uses the TLS protocol.');

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security

Hope this helps,

--
Bart

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Jeremy J Starcher wrote:

That information is not available in the Javascript standard library.

(*) Ok, there isn't a real standard library -- I know what I mean just
not how to phrase it.

What about "That information is not available without the use of an API."?
HTH

PointedEars
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