On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Eric Dorland wrote:
Please don't file duplicate bug reports.
Sorry, didn't see the other one. There are 241 open bugs on firefox, and reportbug sorts the forwarded bugs after all others, so this (very serious) bug gets listed after 50-some-odd wishlist items. My bad for not recognizing this sorting anomaly.
I'm really not sure. The phishing possibilities are a bit scary, but how widespread are these IDNs? Am I going to be making a lot of popular websites inaccessible? Just because someone is "english-speaking" doesn't mean they can't speak or want to surf pages of a different language.
If I understand the advisory correctly, Internet Explorer doesn't support IDNs at all. For some people, that's a definition of "not widespread". I am concerned that the costs of the workaround fall most heavily on foreign users, but i18n isn't (IMO) an excuse for security vulnerabilities.
You can always get to the site using the punycoded version of the domain-name, as far as I know, so we're not making anything *inaccessible*, just *less convenient*.
--scott
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