From afa90f0df5d3cbf7c05ec0db7505b07d32fa9edd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hauke D Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:06:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added a note on virtual FS --- using.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/using.md b/using.md index ff0cd3e..7710a03 100644 --- a/using.md +++ b/using.md @@ -252,6 +252,9 @@ It is important to keep apart the different ways to access files: - A `` tag will cause `webperl.js` to fetch `foo.pl` from the *web server*, not the virtual filesystem! + - *However*, that Perl script will *also* only see the virtual filesystem, + not the web server, so it won't even be able to see "itself". You can still + fetch things from the webserver using e.g. AJAX requests. While a WebPerl instance is running, you can modify files in the virtual file system as you might be used to from regular Perl. But the virtual filesystem is reloaded every