Re: Local program exection in WWW browsers

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> >In order to make full use of WWW browsers I'd like them to execute local
> >programs, possibly using their output as HTML (ie a local CGI script).  
> 
> Why not just have your local server execute it as a cgi-bin script?

Because the local server can't apply access permissions as reliably - e.g.,
if I use the local server, it accesses the files as www,www.  If the file
is read only by me, or read-only to a group that I belong, this won't work.
I want to use the built in UNIX permissions and not have to set up special
access files - this is for local access only, not general use over the network.

Dave
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