Re: internet explorer view-source url

["Juan M. Courcoul" <courcoul () campus qro itesm mx>]

hellNbak wrote

> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, John C. Hennessy wrote:
>
> > Perhaps its just me but I see this as a potential problem. From what I can
> > tell all versions of internet explorer 4 and above allow view-source urls.
> >
> > view-source:http://www.news.com
>
> I think it might be just you as doing a view-source:///boot.ini will show 
> you the LOCAL boot.ini.  So, if I was a malicous web master, unless I can 
> get some sort of code to execute this doesn't help me all that much.

Tried both formats for the view-source URLs with the following results:

Windows 2000 Professional SP2+all current patches
Internet Explorer 5.50.4807.2300
   view-source:http:... works, sort of. Page gets fetched, and displayed
                        using Notepad, not the main browser window.

   view-source:///local file  does not work. Nothing is ever displayed.

MacOS X 10.1.5+all current patches
Internet Explorer for X 5.1.4 (4415.2)
   view-source: any format. "Error: this program does not support the
                            protocol for accessing 'view-source:'.

HTH,

JMC