On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, pdp (architect) wrote: > here is an idea... we can combine both techniques into a single > attack... the hardest part of your hack is to force the user to type > :// plus several other / Actually, MSIE doesn't require drive specification in the filename, and will probably accept relative paths as well (so you might not need \ either when picking files from the desktop or 'my documents' or whatnot). Firefox won't settle for a path without drive specification (but it will accept SMB requests ;-). On *nix systems, of course, aiming /etc/passwd is easier than C:\whatever. The problem with intercepting address bar input is that you can't echo the entered text back there without unloading the current document and its scripts; in my examples, I tried to make sure that it's hard for the user to notice that his input is not going where it should (in MSIE example, this includes simulation of a blinking cursor). /mz
