Thanks - maybe this is where Im missed the plot regarding the importance of chrome
Are you implying that I ought to be able to locally register a chrome location that points to a remote host so I can download remote xul which is trusted? Brian King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Assuming a remote xul is opened using something like http://host/remote.xul > > why is this more unsecure than chrome:://workstation/local.xul > > Only registered chrome can access other chrome via chrome:// URLs. > Registering means the guarantee of some level of trust. Chrome loaded > remotely does not have this level of trust as you can not allow arbitray > access to all of the chrome for various reasons which escape me at the > moment. > > - Brian > >
