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From: Jackie on 12 May 2010 14:58
On 5/12/2010 20:48, RayLopez99 wrote:
> Thanks Arne. The Chessbase program is a fat client residing locally
> on my machine, and my web browser is Firefox. The website in question
> used what looked like to me JavaScript or something akin to Flash or
> Silverlight, and was able to figure out I was running Chessbase in the
> background and give the warning it did. Pretty cool, and probably a
> bit more sophisticated than I assumed to be able to detect that.
>
> RL

I think Arne meant something like a dedicated plugin inside Firefox that
is running without restrictions.
From: Arne Vajhøj on 12 May 2010 15:45
On 12-05-2010 14:48, RayLopez99 wrote:
> On May 12, 12:58 pm, Arne Vajh�j<a...(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> I hope that the program in question is a fat client with full privs,
>> because something running inside the web browser should not have
>> access to that kind of information.
>
> Thanks Arne. The Chessbase program is a fat client residing locally
> on my machine, and my web browser is Firefox. The website in question
> used what looked like to me JavaScript or something akin to Flash or
> Silverlight, and was able to figure out I was running Chessbase in the
> background and give the warning it did. Pretty cool, and probably a
> bit more sophisticated than I assumed to be able to detect that.

It should not be possible. It is none of the web sites damn business.

You did not answer yes to a "Give me privs?" question?

Arne
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