Re: [xml-dev] XInclude: security risk 1

[Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>]

> Once a local user has loaded this into a web browser from behind the
> firewall, the original host site or some other remote site can easily
> determine whether some document exists on some server that would not
> normally be accessible to it.

Interesting idea.  It would be easy, for example, for an adversary to
determine the system type by looking for things like /linux vs
C:\PROGRA~1.  Knowing that would help them attack.
	/r$