Thanks Sergiu,
I agree this is absolutely a dangerous thing to do and should not be encouraged
at all!
paul
Le 6 déc. 2012 à 10:27, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :
> On 12/06/2012 12:04 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
>> Why is
>> $xwiki.getURLContent("file:///etc/...")
>> not supposed to work? (if you have programming rights).
>
> Because the OP asked for files local to the user's computer, not the
> server. file:/// on the server will still point to the server.
>
> The only thing that has access to the client machine is the browser. And
> browser makers try really hard to prevent web pages from having access
> to the user's disk.
>
> Unless some LDAP tricks are used to link a user to a certain computer,
> and the XWiki server can have access to each user machine.
>
>> paul
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 6 déc. 2012 à 08:44, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :
>>
>>> On 12/06/2012 11:39 AM, H.-Dirk Schmitt wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a receipt to display a local file inside an xwiki page.
>>>>
>>>> The use case is that this is an intranet documentation provided by xwiki.
>>>> Every user in the audience has normally some configuration files in a
>>>> standardized location.
>>>> The content may differ between for each user (or concrete his
>>>> workstation). This is also the reason not to expose the files on a
>>>> webserver and use the RemoteCode marco.
>>>>
>>>> Current solution is to at a link [[ConfigFile>>file:///etc.....]]
>>>> It would be nicer to display the content inside the xwiki page.
>>>>
>>>
>>> For security reasons, that kind of thing is not supposed to be doable.
>>>
>>> Try using an iframe.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sergiu Dumitriu
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>
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