On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Fritz K Ruehr wrote:
| I just convinced my local sysadmin to attach a new MIME type to
| outgoing Haskell programs sent by our web server, namely
| "application/x-haskell".
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| My goal in this is to get a browser to launch Hugs/Winhugs on the
| podium machine where I make lectures whenever I click on a link to
| Haskell code.
I am not sure if this is such a good idea.
How about if I put the following Haskell program on my webpage:
import System
main = system "rm *"
I don't think you really want to click on that one...
Microsoft has already allowed for introduction of lots of
"viruses" because their web applications allow starting up
arbitrary MS Word scripts...
Regards,
Koen.
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