Re: launching executables through HTML files
Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre (ccprl@xdm001.ccc.cranfield.ac.uk)
Wed, 23 Jun 93 09:10:21 BST
> My suggestion would be to allow "exec:" type links to be run only if
> the file that contains them resides on the local filesystem. (physical,
> NFS, AFS, etc.) Or a file that resides on a trusted host. (in a list?)
> That way there is at least some sense of security.
Since when was AFS a "local" file system? I do not regard arbitrary
files in AFS as trustworthy in the least.
Peter Lister p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
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