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Re: [Lynx-dev] Does Lynx load any external resources when viewing a loca


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Does Lynx load any external resources when viewing a local html file?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 21:18:23 -0400
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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:50:12PM -0400, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
> Hello Lynx developers,
> 
> I would like to know whether Lynx ever loads any external resources when
> viewing local html files.

no*

> If Lynx does load external files, would the "-localhost" option block
> external file loading?

yes*

* conceivably it could execute a cgi script on the local machine which
  could do "anything".  In that case, the script did it - not lynx ;-)

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