You can take so comfort in the fact that by default, your ~/home is not
accessible to the WAN.

Agree that a pkg-readme would not hurt.  In the U.S., applying to most
Federal regulatory agencies eg. USPTO, is done via https with
authentication.

>Hi Ingo,
>
>> Did you try manually typing "/home/hans/Downloads/" and hitting
>> return into the top right corner of the the file selection window?
>> At least that is how it worked for file downloads when i last checked
>> IIRC, even though the top right side of that window offered no clue
>> that directory names could be typed there.
>
>no, I haven't tried that - now I have, and that's what works.
>What a horrendous interface.
>
>(This might be important enough to be added to the pkg-readme.
>Looking in the archives, I am not the first one ...)

>	Thanks!
>
>		Jan
-- 
J. Scott Heppler