Thanks Sergiu, I agree this is absolutely a dangerous thing to do and should not be encouraged at all!
paul Le 6 déc. 2012 à 10:27, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit : > On 12/06/2012 12:04 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote: >> Why is >> $xwiki.getURLContent("file:///etc/...") >> not supposed to work? (if you have programming rights). > > Because the OP asked for files local to the user's computer, not the > server. file:/// on the server will still point to the server. > > The only thing that has access to the client machine is the browser. And > browser makers try really hard to prevent web pages from having access > to the user's disk. > > Unless some LDAP tricks are used to link a user to a certain computer, > and the XWiki server can have access to each user machine. > >> paul >> >> >> >> Le 6 déc. 2012 à 08:44, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit : >> >>> On 12/06/2012 11:39 AM, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I'm looking for a receipt to display a local file inside an xwiki page. >>>> >>>> The use case is that this is an intranet documentation provided by xwiki. >>>> Every user in the audience has normally some configuration files in a >>>> standardized location. >>>> The content may differ between for each user (or concrete his >>>> workstation). This is also the reason not to expose the files on a >>>> webserver and use the RemoteCode marco. >>>> >>>> Current solution is to at a link [[ConfigFile>>file:///etc.....]] >>>> It would be nicer to display the content inside the xwiki page. >>>> >>> >>> For security reasons, that kind of thing is not supposed to be doable. >>> >>> Try using an iframe. >>> >>> -- >>> Sergiu Dumitriu >>> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > > > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users