Absolutely, I don't think we are in disagreement at all. I just wanted to mention the availability of simple web servers (on Linux, as you rightly state). On t

Absolutely, I don't think we are in disagreement at all. I just wanted to mention the availability of simple web servers (on Linux, as you rightly state). On topic, I agree that this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A compromise would perhaps be an explicit whitelist of allowed directories to serve via the file:// protocol, set by the user (while disallowing traversal upwards of these, of course).