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Re: [Lynx-dev] Does Lynx load any external resources when viewing a loca
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Does Lynx load any external resources when viewing a local html file? |
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Thu, 17 May 2018 21:18:23 -0400 |
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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:50:12PM -0400, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
> Hello Lynx developers,
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> I would like to know whether Lynx ever loads any external resources when
> viewing local html files.
no*
> If Lynx does load external files, would the "-localhost" option block
> external file loading?
yes*
* conceivably it could execute a cgi script on the local machine which
could do "anything". In that case, the script did it - not lynx ;-)
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