If you want to use Dell DRAC 5 with IE 8 you need to change this setting or the Virtual Media won’t work.
Microsoft made this change to conform with HTML5.
http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/the-mystery-of-cfakepath-unveiled/
http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?p=817890
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/03/20/rtm-platform-changes.aspx
http://forum.maxthon.com/redirect.php?tid=75307&goto=lastpost
http://www.marc-antho-etc.net/blog/post/Two-IE8-behavioral-changes-worth-mentioninge280a6.aspx
So in order to prevent information disclosure (the path to a file may include the user name if the file reside under the user ‘profile), there are actually two changes combined to achieve that:
- The IE security setting “include local directory path when uploading files to a server” (already present in IE7) is set to “Disable” instead of “Enabled” as it was with IE7 for the “Internet Zone”
