Re: Access from a local file

2010-02-18 Thread Jon Cosby
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:18:03 -0800 (PST), Martin Fick mogul...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 2/17/10, Jon Cosby j...@jcosby.com wrote: I'm referring to links from file:// urls. By default, Torbutton blocks this, and has it recommended. Ah, you mean the file protocol. Firefox itself tends

RE: Access from a local file

2010-02-17 Thread downie -
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:18:03 -0800 From: mogul...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Access from a local file To: or-talk@freehaven.net One of the reasons is to prevent malicious users from including file:// urls in an external webpage. With file:// urls, a webpage could be designed to test

RE: Access from a local file

2010-02-17 Thread Martin Fick
--- On Wed, 2/17/10, downie - downgeo...@hotmail.com wrote: One of the reasons is to prevent malicious users from including file:// urls in an external webpage. With file:// urls, a webpage could be designed to test for the existence of local files on your computer. How? Same origin