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I wanted to make the control program for my C++ program to be a mini-web server. However, if the user has the Flash player (and presumably other plug-ins) installed, a properly designed Flash movie could attack the server by using sockets. If I could embed my own browser, I could add a variable in the request string, thus verifying the client (only the client could read the file system). Big problem here is getting a browser that is free to embed, works, and isn’t hard to setup *cough* Mozilla.