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I know you can't open/link local resources from the browsers for security reasons, but i wonder how google does that.

If you ever used Google Desktop, you know you can search your computer from a web page, and yes, you can open files, folders etc. How is that?

Anyone?

  • It's the server side interaction that makes it possible. Presumably Google Desktop runs a local web server to access your file system. – mtmk Aug 09 '11 at 22:37
  • As I recall Google Desktop installs a local client. I would imagine the client does the file operations, not your browser. – Carey Gregory Aug 09 '11 at 22:38

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