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butheadrecoverdwpa wrote:

cocoanut wrote:

I wanted to post this the other day, but you beat me to it!

I agree, it could be useful.

Yes I agree too. I love the ideas, I am working on my own programming system and these would be really cool!    . I would also like blocks like these ones :

Code:

post {lists and variable} on server { www.somewebsite.com }
( input from server (67) )
create public server called {someserver}
create private server name:{someserver} password:{***********}
join server {someserver} if password use {***********}
send {Hello} on server (67)

and buttons like these ones:

Code:

(create server)
(join server)

Which would pop up windows like this:

Code:

{----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------}
|server name:{someserver}
|password:{somepassword}
|o private   o public
|o worldwide  o network o on networks:
|                                         {blah}
|                                         {blah} 
{-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------}

I need these!

I have many resons to agree and many resons to disagree.

fullmoon wrote:

hdarken wrote:

I have many resons to agree and many resons to disagree.

I would love to hear both of them!

If you agree be sure to vote this idea up on Scratch Suggestions!

I agree because it could be very helpfull for making projects. I dissagree because you can get viruses and there could be innapropriate content and Im pretty sure there will be no viruses and innapropriate content.

I like this idea.
It would make OS web browsers so awesome!
But, there are virus-y cons.

I really like the ideas here. It would be a great way to add interactive content, and even better, you could save space on your project by loading content (such as music) from online. Like others, I am concerned about the changing nature of web content and the difficulty involved in monitoring it.

Thing is, most people like to copy and paste things, and you can't do that in Scratch. It'd be a pain to type h t t p : / / s c r a t c h . m i t . e d u / f or u m s / v i e w t o p i c . p h p ? i d = (No ID for you.)

Last edited by geohendan (2011-02-14 20:38:38)

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joefarebrother wrote:

actually what if someone made a scratch project with a script that opens a url to itself repeatadly?

Also, it would be possibe for someone to write a program which picks a text string at random, attempts to log in to the website with the guessed password and a given username, and if it fails, it tries again. That would make it possible to hack ANY account on the scratch website, and the program might not even have to be uploaded!!! Then they might edit the code so they can hack ANY account on ANY website!!! And MIT will get all of the blame...

OMG
ppl are doing these
and they don't scratch to do that
what could be dangerous if a popular person makes a little code in his program to shut down a server etc.

This would make scratch more dangerous. 

legoscratch wrote:

In my opinion, it seems like a lot more trouble to moderate than it's worth.

Indeed - I'm not sure what I've posted previously on this thread (though I'm sure I have), but I'm pretty certain it's something to that effect.

gershmer wrote:

rubiks_cube_guy238 wrote:

No, a URL block wouldn't be a good idea. The one, big, fat reason is this:
Someone uploads a project to the web that opens up a virused website.
Everyone who views the project gets a virus.
Do you like this situation?

How would it download...?

Drive-by-download attacks, that's how.
However, it could simply notify the user they are going to the site in a alert() box when the url() block is on que. Beside, they could use mywot.com's api and filter out bad sites.