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kekub on Sept 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lesser-known Web APIs

I expected to find the Sharing-API [1] in the list. I just found out about it recently and have used it multiple times since then. It even works on iOS.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...

timendum on Sept 2, 2020 [–]

It only works on mobile (not Firefox) and on Safari.

It's also easy to abuse [1]

[1]: https://blog.redteam.pl/2020/08/stealing-local-files-using-s...

kevincox on Sept 2, 2020 | [–]

This looks more like an implementation flaw than being easy to abuse. The API is still useful after it is patched.

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