In Gecko 1.8 or earlier, any two file: URIs are considered to be same- origin. In other words, any HTML file on your local disk can read any other file on your local disk. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Same-origin_policy_for_file%3a_URIs
Or, if you need a web page with expanded privileges, you can use netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege() method. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html Honza On 9 Bře, 19:06, "Cameron K." <[email protected]> wrote: > So does that mean that I can't preview local files in a webpage at all? > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Jan Odvarko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Every time I type this, I can mouseover the "file:///home/~~" and it > > > shows me a preview of the image, but that image is not reflected in > > > the actual webpage. > > > This is because Firebug loads the specified image as an extension that > > has appropriate privileges (so the popup preview works), but a web > > page can't access local (file://) resources. > > Honza --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
