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IE Sends Local Addresses in Referer Header

An IE XML data island fetches a remote URL from a locally saved HTML file and sends the local path as the Referer, leaking the drive location and the Windows username with no JavaScript running. Credited to trev; Firefox is unaffected because it has no data islands.

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