Mark of the Web

[Guest]

I have been reading about the Mark of the Web on Adobe's site and on msdn.com to get an idea of what it's for. The gist I get is that it simply allows you to run the FlashHelp system in IE on your local machine without getting security warnings. Is that the only benefit? I found only one line about Mark of the Web in RH7's help: "Mark of the Web is a security option for Windows XP. Select this option if your files will be viewed locally in Internet Explorer by developers or end users." I don't see any difference in viewing my help systems with or without Mark of the Web selected, on or off my local machine. Does anyone know more about this and when or when not to use it?

Does the fact that FlashHelp runs on my machine with no warning even without Mark of the Web have anything to do with the Flash Security Manager on this site (I have my hard drives allowed on that page)? Thanks,

Ben

[Captiv8r]

Hi Ben

Mark of the Web really doesn't have anything to do with Flash content. It was first used in FlashHelp output, but probably only because that was the "easy one" to configure. You might find the link below to help explain things related to this.

Click here

Cheers... Rick

[Guest]

Thanks Rick--what I get from your explanation is that MOTW affects the help system only when someone is running it from the hard drive, so it doesn't do anything when the help is run over a server, is that right? Our users access help from the server, so MOTW isn't necessary? As I mentioned, I have my hard disks specified on the Flash Security Manager page you referred to, so I don't think MOTW helps me, either.

--Ben