launching executables through HTML files: solved?

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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1993 14:30:05 +1200
From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
Message-id: <199307190230.AA20357@kauri.vuw.ac.nz>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
In-Reply-To: Marc Andreessen's message <9306200250.AA00157@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Subject: launching executables through HTML files: solved?
Status: RO

It doesn't make sense to let *other* sites exec your programs, so why
not have a check in the HTRule() code that compares the previous URL
to this URL, and checks if the previous URL's address was one that is
``acceptable''.  Acceptable could be defined in a .client file or a
rule file, or simply through guesswork (same class-B/C address?).

Comments?

Nat