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.
This page describes some of the security measures built in Tails to protect from such attacks and explains how to access some types of resources 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 <span class="filename">http://192.168.1.40/document.pdf</span> execute the following command:
