[Discuss] html issue

Thu Apr 7 17:33:52 EDT 2022

gregory galperin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 03:28:30PM -0400, dan moylan wrote:
> >
> > 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 alignÎnter>
> > > <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.

> I'm reaching a bit, but I could imagine the browser knowing what its
> working dir is and stripping that off an absolute path to use a relative
> path below it.

that would not provide an explanation for why tst.htm would
work perfectly when invoked on its own, but not when called
from another link from my home page.  actually i tried
calling it from just another link and it functioned
perfectly.

> got another explanation? ;)

something to to with frames?  if so too abstruse for me.

> another thing I wondered was whether any of these dirs were symlinks, since
> in that case ../dirsymlink/ isn't a no-op.

no symlinks in the path.

thanks for the help,
ole dan

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