[10365] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Running Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stuart Young)
Fri Oct 11 10:04:13 1996
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 00:02:21 +1000 (EST)
From: Stuart Young <nakor@glasswings.com.au>
To: Bob Jernigan <jern@spaceaix.jhuapl.edu>
Cc: Francisco Pinto <francis@di.uminho.pt>, www-html@w3.org, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <9610111344.AA20015@sdrmis.jhuapl.edu>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Bob Jernigan wrote:
> This can be done but do you really want to? Just to be sure I know
> what you're asking, you want to configure your browser so that when
> you click a url like "http://disk.destroyer.ugh/erasedsk.exe", the
> executable will immediately destroy your disk. Is that what
> you want?
I believe he's intending to use this on local/company intranet where all
data is a known quantity, not on the general WWW, where anything could
happen.
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