Re: Firefox question
- From: Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:25:35 -0300
R Kimber wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:22:39 -0300
Derek Broughton wrote:
Thanks. I guess I could change browsers. Konqueror works. I'll
have to think about it.
It really shouldn't. It seems like a gross breach of security for a
web page to permit links to local files.
It doesn't do it automatically, it pops up a window giving the user a
warning and a choice, which seems perfectly sensible to me. There are
some circumstances where security is unlikely to be compromised.
Sure. There are, but the problem is relying on _users_ to know when that's
true, which is why you can't do that sort of thing in script. The good
news is that it doesn't seem to actually execute the file if it's a script.
Still seems a little scary.
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