WEIGHT-10 Re: [Javascript] xmlhttprequest

[Iztok Polanic]

Hi!

You're correct. I'm developing on my own web server (localhost) and 
accessing the template with http://localhost....

Bye,

Iztok
Developer from Slovenia

Peter Brunone wrote:
> 
>    I read the post as meaning that the page was being served from 
> localhost, which wouldn't be a problem at all...  then again, I'm not 
> exactly batting a thousand with the ol' reading comprehension lately...
> 
> 
> *From*: "Mike Dougherty" mdougherty at pbp.com <mailto:mdougherty at pbp.com>
> 
> Maybe I didn't read closely enough - i thought we were talking about a 
> ServerX delivering a page
> with javascript trying to access localhost data. That would be a 
> cross-domain security problem
> anyway...
> 
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:09:48 -0200
> Flavio Gomes wrote:
>  >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
>  >>
>  >> 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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