Re: LYNX-DEV using Lynx as an automatic internet agent - Thanks!

[Uwe Koch]

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Root wrote:

> 
> Now that IE has Active X support, when is Lynx going to be able to
> download shell scripts or binaries and execute them automatically after
> displaying a warning, or checking a signature?  [just kidding ;-) ]

NO KIDDING, this is possible without modifying lynx at all for 
shell-scripts...
Just define a MIME-Type application/x-csh, define a 'viewer' and
get a file with this Type and TADA, the script get's executed.

Calling this a security hole is ...



a little understimated :-).

-uwe

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