Re: Open and read from http://someserver/file.txt

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:01:56 +1200, "Nik Coughin"
<nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz> wrote:

Michael Winter wrote:
Security is privacy oriented. Possibilities...

Accessing HTML pages from other domains:

A script could interfere with a page. An extreme case might be one
that periodicly checks other pages for form fields that contain
personal information, whether it be credit card information,
passwords, or e-mail addresses.

Most likely reason is to subvert IP based protection, if a certain
page is only accessible within the intranet, I just need to fool
someone to visit the page, then I can proxy myself through them.

Also if I can proxy myself through someone I can pretend to be them on
other sites, maybe sending spam, maybe ...

Jim.
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