WEIGHT-10 Re: [Javascript] xmlhttprequest

[Flavio Gomes]

IE sucks.

 Did I say it? No .. I must have just tought it..yeah.. sure.. but it 
does sucks..


(Ps.: It was just a joke, ok people?)


Peter Brunone wrote:

>
>    That doesn't quite make sense.  If MS blocked web developers from 
> accessing files on the local web server, then you could never develop 
> on the web server box; you would *always* need two machines for 
> development.
>
>    The security concern is with the local filesystem as you mentioned, 
> but this has nothing to do with files called through a web server.
>
>    It does sound like there might be a security issue, but that would 
> be more of a "zone" configuration problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
> *
> From*: "Mike Dougherty" mdougherty at pbp.com <mailto:mdougherty at pbp.com>
>
> I believe that's MS's answer to the security vulnerability where the 
> evil javascript developer
> tries to read the local filesystem to do nasty things. So you may be 
> fighting an IE security
> update.
>
> Good luck...
>
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:24:40 +0100
> Iztok Polanic wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm playing a bit with XMLhttpRequest. I found out, that if the file 
> in on local web server
> >(localhost) then IE throws an error (-107....) Does anybody have a 
> clue how to solve this?
> >Mozilla works fine :)
> >
> >--
> >Bye,
> >
> >Iztok
>
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