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Re: Re:Local "action" in Forms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Raggett)
Tue Aug 2 13:56:17 1994
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 19:45:42 +0200
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From: Dave Raggett <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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> Does anyone know which of the new flavours of HTML plan to
> solve this type of problem or not as the case may be ?
There seems to be two approaches to letting browsers invoke
scripts locally:
a) Only allow execution of trusted scripts
b) Provide a safe environment for execution
of non-trusted scripts
You can provide trusted scripts in a number of ways:
i) A set of trusted programs in a local
read-only directory
ii) Scripts signed securely by trusted parties
The latter will have to wait until Secure HTTP takes off.
I am proposing a standard API for non-trusted scripts for
HTML fill-out forms. This will probably appear in HTML 3.1.
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Best wishes,
Dave Raggett
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