Ruby on Rails

Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Hemant Bhargava <lists@ruby-forum.com>
> wrote:
>
>>>> Basically, if i open an txt file in firefox using "File > Open file"
>>>> then file is opening perfectly. But if i try to open a txt file from a
>>>> file link on a webpage "file:///path" it is not going anywhere?
>
>> By this i mean that page is neither reloading nor going to a new tab.
>> Usually if you click on a link something happens from these two. But now
>> its not.
>
> Dunno if it's a bug or a feature, but yeah, file URLs don't seem to work
> in FF (or Safari, for that matter). But if the link is hand-crafted
> (which is
> what I tried), I don't see how it could be related to Rails, in any
> case.

I have a dim memory that this is a feature, designed to prevent remote
websites from tricking you into editing local files or reading them with
JavaScript. But I could be wrong.

>
> FWIW,
> --
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> twitter: @hassan

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