Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 can read local files

From: Trev (trevat_private)
Date: Wed Nov 25 1998 - 14:13:05 PST

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    At 12:48 PM 11/25/98 -0500, 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.
    
    I've whipped up a couple of demos of this bug that send the contents to a
    cgi.  There is a windows version that I know works, and a unix version I
    can't test because my linux box is down (it's a hardware thing).  This is
    for anyone who has doubts....
    
    http://www.kics.bc.ca/~trev/cgi-bin/test.html (Windoze)
    
    http://www.kics.bc.ca/~trev/cgi-bin/test-unix.html (UNIX)
    
    And yes, it can email it to you if you like :)
    
    Trev
    



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