Variable: url-allow-non-local-files

url-allow-non-local-files is a variable defined in url-file.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

If non-nil, allow URL to fetch non-local files.

By default, this is not allowed, since that would allow rendering HTML to fetch files on other systems if given a <img src="/ssh:host..."> element, which can be disturbing.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/url/url-file.el.gz
(defvar url-allow-non-local-files nil
  "If non-nil, allow URL to fetch non-local files.
By default, this is not allowed, since that would allow rendering
HTML to fetch files on other systems if given a <img
src=\"/ssh:host...\"> element, which can be disturbing.")