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Subject: [Discuss] html issue
From: jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:28:30 -0400

dale worely wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 02:30:26PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> > i'm probably shooting myself in the foot somewhere.  note the
> > attached file at the end (tst.htm).  when i invoke this
> > directly (file:///home/moylan/www/moy/lnk/tst.htm), FLI-?
> > works in each and every instance.  when i call this file
> > from a link on my home page (which consists of a nest of
> > several frames), i see:
> >
> >   FLI-0: nothing
> >   FLI-1: The requested URL was not found on this server.
> >   FLI-2: aok
> >   FLI-3: aok
> >   FLI-4: aok
> >   FLI-5: The requested URL was not found on this server.
> >   FLI-6: The requested URL was not found on this server.
> >
> > in any event, my immediate issue is resolved (i can do what
> > i need to do), but i'm still curious as to what's going on.
> >
> > thanks all for looking at my issue.
> >
> > ole dan

> <html>
> <head>
>   <base target="_top">
>   <title>"TST"</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <div align?nter>
> <b><font size=+2>TST</b></font><hr>
> </div>
> <ul>
>   <li><a href="file:///home/moylan/www/moy/lnk/htm/fli.htm">FLI-0</a>
>   <li><a href="/home/moylan/www/moy/lnk/htm/fli.htm">FLI-1</a>
>   <li><a href="htm/fli.htm">FLI-2</a>
>   <li><a href="../lnk/htm/fli.htm">FLI-3</a>
>   <li><a href="../../moy/lnk/htm/fli.htm">FLI-4</a>
>   <li><a href="../../../www/moy/lnk/htm/fli.htm">FLI-5</a>
>   <li><a href="../../../../moylan/www/moy/lnk/htm/fli.htm">FLI-6</a>
> </ul>
> </body>
> </html>

> that looks like the browser process doesn't have privs to
> access anything "above" /home/moylan/www/ -- what's the
> user, group, chmod on those dirs above, what uid & gid is
> the browser process running as?

not so -- when tst.htm was invoked directly, and not via
another link, there were no priv issues, and the browser
accessed the file just fine in every instance, including
"above" /home/moylan/www.

ole dan

j. daniel moylan
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