potential disclosure of private data in konqueror

[Dawit A.]

On Sunday 12 January 2003 16:59, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> think about this: you fight with copy&paste (thanks to klipper) and you
> accidentally paste something in the location bar of konqueror that
> shouldn't end up there.
>
> now, konqueror will happily do a google query upon it. which is a cool
> feature. but maybe it was something you didn't want to send unencrypted
> through the wire, and especially not around half of the world.
> Wouldn't it make sense to popup a question messagebox first before we do
> the "fallback-try-google" case ?

This behavior will be changed shortly.  There will be an option to pick a 
default search engine where you can select "None", the default. BTW, this 
feature was configurable but was removed recently when the now defunct 
RealNames feature was removed.  

BTW this feature is part of KURIFilter and there is currently no way for an 
app like konqueror to distinguish which filter plugin successfully filtered 
the URL.

Regards,
Dawit A.