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It's pretty standard when you're developing a web application. Your backend runs on your machine, your frontend requests stuff from within the browser.
by Tossrock 11y ago
It's pretty standard when you're developing a web application. Your backend runs on your machine, your frontend requests stuff from within the browser.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoSure, but why can external sites access localhost?
- Tyr42 11y agoThey external sites don't access it, they just ask the browser to load an image. So the external site can't read the result, but that's not actually stopping them from owning your machine.
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