Posted by wylbur37 on 05/31/06 18:48

Martin Jay wrote:
> wylbur37 <wylbur37nospam@yahoo.com> writes
> >I wrote a simple PHP script (called test3.php) that I'm running by
> >putting the following URL in the address bar of the browser (Firefox)
> >...
> > http://localhost/test3.php
> >
> >The script generates the following link using the echo statement ...
> >
> > <a href="file:///C:/pictures/xyz.jpg"> Picture </a>
> >
> >("C:/pictures/xyz.jpg", as you can guess by now, is an image file on
> >my harddrive, but it's not in the document root).
> >
> >When I clicked on the link, nothing happened.
>
> It's disabled for security reasons.
>
> There's more information about this at:
> <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don't_work>

What's the use of Mozilla/Firefox refusing to honor links to local
files "for security reasons" when any website can still access
a user's files anyway by means of a PHP script?

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