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in reply to Re: [OT] Who is requesting the page?
in thread [OT] Who is requesting the page?

The thing is, the HTML he is producing executes /usr/bin/ (i assume on his platform it opens a file explorer) from the local machine (ie the machine that is running the browser). There is no security risk.


-Waswas