WEIGHT-10 Re: [Javascript] xmlhttprequest

[Peter Brunone]

   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

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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