[1518] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: JavaScript to grab email (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Achim Dreyer)
Thu Feb 22 06:47:01 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 09:38:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Achim Dreyer <adreyer@plato.uni-paderborn.de>
To: "Daniel L. Smith" <dls@JavaJoint.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4b11.32.19960221215356.006b19b0@best.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 13:53:56 -0800
> From: Daniel L. Smith <dls@JavaJoint.com>
> Subject: Re: JavaScript to grab email (fwd)
>
> whoops, sent that too quickly...
>
> resuming:
>
> It seems to me that you could do the same thing with ftp.
> Have a frames document where the html for one of the panes comes through
> anonymous ftp instead of http. You would then have a process essentially
> doing a tail -f on the log file. Any new addition could trigger a script
> to parse the last line of the log file, and do whatever. No JavaScript
> involved.
But that's the other way round. - The work is done by the ADMIN of the ftp
site, there should/is no easy way for a simple USER (eg. document/JavaScript
writer) to get the log files of a (good/secure/..) ftp site.
( Surely, I want to control what MY LOCAL browser is going to do!! )
> Daniel
>
> Daniel L. Smith, Petaluma/Sausalito, CA
> dls@JavaJoint.com www.JavaJoint.com dls@daniel.org
> Mammal, Husband, Father, Brother, Webhead, Prankster, Caffeine Addict
Ciao,
Achim
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