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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: http://bugs.kde.org/db/31/31610.html
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-08-28 18:04:32
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On Mardi 28 Août 2001 16:40, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Don't we all love internet transparency? ;(
> 
> Greetings, Stephan
> 
> 1. add an object to a document for (example a embedded                
>    k-spread-object in kword)
> 2. save...
> 2. open the maindoc.xml of the saved file manually
> 3. now you can change the url from the embedded object tag to an      
>   *external* location. 
> 
> <OBJECT mime="application/x-kspread"    
> url="http://localhost/readingDoc.pl" >
>
> Every time I open the document, the koffice-part open this url 
> without confirmation. It try to load it. I only tested http. 

Interesting.... this triggers some code that's not supposed to be triggered yet....

> Execution of programs *don't work* :-))
Thanks to the KIO design - a get() is only a get.
Yes Waldo, I know about kio_pop3........ :(

> So it is possible e.g. for some companies to get informations about 
> "reading interrests".

You mean, knowing how many times a document was opened (and maybe on which hosts) ?
Hmm, indeed. What should we do then ? Forbid external links completely (since at
the moment it's not possible to create one from the GUI) ? Or maybe ask the 
user every time, when the link is external and not local (not file:/) ?

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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