many thanks..... and btw ....

the predefined roots where defined by Warren Harris at Netscape in his
netlib post of 11/23/1999


"Benjamin Smedberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> rvj wrote:
> > sometime back in 1999 I saw a post that planned to replace resource:
with
> > the res: protocol
> >
> >     eg res://<root>/<path>
> >
> > 1. did this happen and are following roots valid?
>
> The resource: protocol is this protocol. Currently the following keys are
> supported by default:
>
> resource:/// (empty root) == application directory
> resource://gre/ == GRE directory (or app directory if not using a GRE)
> resource://app/ == XUL application directory (if running a XULRunner app)
>
> >         ProgramDir
> >         CurrentDir
> >         TempDir
> >         ComponentsDir
> >          SystemDir
>
> No, and there is no plan to support these for security reasons. In
> particular "tempdir" would open up serious attack vectors. Why would you
> need these anyway? If you are privileged code you can get these from the
> directory service directly.
>
> --BDS


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