Accessing resources on the local network can be useful in the context of Tails, for example to exchange documents with someone on the same local network without going through the Internet.

<p>Connections made to the local network are not anonymous and do not go
through Tor.</p>

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Browsing web pages on the local network

To access web pages on the local network, use the [[*Unsafe Browser*|anonymous_internet/unsafe_browser]] instead.

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Downloading files from web pages on the local network

To download files from web pages on the local network, you can use the `curl` command instead. For example, to download a document available on the local network at *http://192.168.1.40/document.pdf* execute the following command:

curl http://192.168.1.40/document.pdf