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A module to (safely) obfuscate all occurrences of the string 'ActiveX' inside any JavaScript code.
A module to (safely) obfuscate all occurrences of the string 'ActiveX' inside any JavaScript code.
Some corporate firewalls /proxies such as Blue Coat block JavaScript files to be
downloaded if they contain the word 'ActiveX'
. That of course is very annoying
for libraries such as socket.io that need to use ActiveXObject
for
supporting IE8 and older.
npm install active-x-obfuscator
var activeXObfuscator = require('active-x-obfuscator');
var code = 'foo(new ActiveXObject());';
var obfuscated = activeXObfuscator(code);
// -> foo(new window[(['Active'].concat('Object').join('X'))])
Licensed under the MIT license.
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A module to (safely) obfuscate all occurrences of the string 'ActiveX' inside any JavaScript code.
The npm package active-x-obfuscator receives a total of 29,135 weekly downloads. As such, active-x-obfuscator popularity was classified as popular.
We found that active-x-obfuscator demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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