[c-nsp] "Enhanced" download procedure

Jay Hennigan jay at west.net
Tue Sep 15 14:25:29 EDT 2009


Church, Charles wrote:
> It looks like it needs unrestricted access so that it can access your file system, since it presents its own file manager looking thing so you can pick where to save the files.  No way to know for sure though.

But every browser has a built-in download utility so this is worthless 
complexity and a potential security hole.  It also completely breaks 
lynx and wget, and the benefits are exactly what?

Do the people at Cisco have any idea that this so-called improvement is 
actually a hindrance?

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