- From: Bjartur Thorlacius <svartman95@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:10:58 +0000
On 1/9/11, Glenn Maynard <glenn at zewt.org> wrote: > File access control is currently, very clearly and very deliberately, > handled by the browser: web pages can only access files the user gives > to the page by selecting them in form input boxes. What you're > actually saying is that this should be removed, web pages should be > able to access any local file that the OS user account the script is > running as has access to, and that users should control what files > they want web pages to access by modifying the operating system's > ACL's to grant and revoke access to web pages. Precisely. Any hurdles I've foreseen with that method so far are OS' faults.
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