Community forum attempting to 'snoop' around device on the LAN

[#1]

@James_B 

I encountered this new phenomenon this evening ...

Would you know what changes have been made to the service to bring this about please?

It is more than a tad disconcerting!

[#2]

It is more than a tad disconcerting!

You can say that again!!

[#3]

What web browser are you using? Version number not required.

(Other web browsers may not have experienced this phenominon)

[#4]

I had that over the weekend on Chrome. Denied access of course.

Mark

[#5]

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@grumble wrote:

What web browser are you using? Version number not required.

(Other web browsers may not have experienced this phenominon)

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I somehow doubt this is browser related, although I haven't experienced  it (yet).

[#6]

Hi @Townman,

We haven't made any changes at our end and I haven't encountered it myself.

I'll raise a ticket with Khoros this morning so they can take a look.

Thanks

James

[#7]

I haven't seen the issue, although I'm not currently on a PN connection and I'm using Firefox

edit: seems like it might be Chrome https://developer.chrome.com/blog/local-network-access

[#8]

Now I have looked, the Beta designation disconcerts me a little...

Either rouge activity from the community service or a false positive from beta programmes software.

I have saw it only twice at the time I reported it.

[#9]

Ah, wonder if it is MS Edge related then - I certainly don't experience it on Firefox.

[#10]

Given that Firefox has configurable options for access to local stuff via about:preferences#privacy I was a little confuzzled when you stated that it may not be a browser problem. Does Edge have that granular control?

[#11]

@grumble IF that was aimed at me, although I have configured FF  to my liking, I have only done so away from about:config - seen no need to delve any deeper.

As to Edge, I have no idea, having never used it.

[#12]

Ah, wonder if it is MS Edge related then 

To quote MS 'The new Microsoft Edge (Chromium) is built on the same underlying technology as Google Chrome, '

[#13]

I've (in extremis) used Edge when tryng to understand little foibles in what webservers are trying to do. Sometimes using both (when applicable) can disclose unfortunate things before calling customer support. "Yes, I've already done that. It didn't resolve the problem." Which cuts through the 1st line support scripts.

Opinions...

Edge is not as configurable (controllable) as FF (IMO). Or if it is as configurable, it hides a lot of things.

Web forums don't "thread" replies as well as older technologies? And replies can become a bit unstranded. And thus your "if"?

I'm wondering what Firefox have been working on in their latest update. I'm not enamoured with some of the previous "feature creep". Some of which cannot be configured out/disabled. How web browsers interpret isn't standardised.

[#14]

Everyone is concentrating on Edge, but I did mention that I had seen it in Chrome. Shame I didn't screenshot it. It isn't/ wasn't single browser related.

[#15]

Edge is based on Chromium..