From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-03-18T22:08:04-08:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla

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Phil Tomson (ptkwt@aracnet.com) wrote:

> Also, I could be wrong as I haven't had to deal much with JS, but doesn't=
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> JS hide the guns&knives meaning that it doesn't let you do certain things=
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> like copy files around, etc.?

This is what Mozilla's XPCOM allows.  Naturally, access to the XPCOM
layer is only allowed from within the browser chrome, signed scripts, or
on reciept of special permission from the user.

> For example, I don't think you could (using JS) get a file from a=20
> particular website and then copy it to some specific directory on your=20
> machine, for example. (but I could be wrong) =20

http://jslib.mozdev.org for local FS access and XmlHTTPRequest for
fetching a file off the web will do the trick.

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