> > Bottomline: everything goes through the browser's file upload dialog
> > anyway and thus we don't have to worry about security implications.
>
> Actually, since this is local there is no need for it to go through
> the upload dialog.  The server could just read the file off the
> filesystem.
>
> Thanks for pointing out the distinction, which could really matter for
> implementing this, though it won't matter for this particular scenario
> (OS X gui users).


So there would be a flag like SAGE_IMREALLYREALLYLOCAL which indicates that 
the user who's using Sage is in fact the same person who started it? We don't 
want to trigger reading files and such as a response to a simple HTTP GET 
(think phishing and stuff) for server's which are not 100% local use only.

Martin

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