RE: Reading local files in Netscape 6 and Mozilla (GM#001-NS)

From: Thor Larholm (Thorat_private)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 11:07:22 PDT

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    > Demonstration:
    > ==============
    > 
    > A fully dynamic proof-of-concept demonstration
    > of this issue is available at
    > http://security.greymagic.com/adv/gm001-ns/.
    
    As some of you may have noticed, the above proof-of-concept does not work in
    Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1.
    
    Don't get your hopes high about this though, the issue has not been fixed in
    moz1rc1 - the XMLHttpRequest was simply broken in this version of the
    browser for unknown reasons, a fact not mentioned in the release notes. When
    trying to use it, either nothing happens or the browser crashes. The
    proof-of-concept works just fine in Mozilla 0.9.9 (and NS6.1+), and would
    work fine in moz1rc1 if the XMLHttpRequest object could be used at all.
    
    The Mozilla XML-Extras project also includes a document.load method that is
    used to load XML documents. The same issue applies to this method, and a
    proof-of-concept demonstration that also works in moz1rc1 can be found at
    
    http://jscript.dk/2002/4/NS6Tests/documentload.html
    
    Regards
    Thor Larholm
    Jubii A/S - Internet Programmer
    



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