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In Gmail, I just noticed that you can paste (CTRL+P) an image directly into the body of the email message.
Question: how does this work? Does JavaScript allow this functionality, I thought not. Also, I don’t believe any Java Applets or Flash is being loaded to allow this functionality.
Seems my initial intuition about this was wrong, but this has actually been answered here: How does the paste image from clipboard functionality work in Gmail and Google Chrome 12+?
For online images, google actually uses a reference to the original images http location. For images pasted locally, google uploads the image onto its own (cache) server and then sends the [img src ” /] pointing to that.
Yikes! Scary stuff, eh? Better not leave any confidential information in your clipboard (image, passwords, etc). and then unmindfully paste into a website that may be sniffing