On 13 Mar 00, at 11:12, sihaya wrote:
> I received in my mailbox an unwanted porn spam letter. When I held the
> cursor over the link, the address was as follows :
>
> http://%3362@3743%393%2F%6F%79%65%73
>
> and it didn't connect, which is unfortunate because I wanted to write a
> little note to the webmaster...
>
> Is this an IP spoof in action? I thought the 951514199foobar.akamai.com
> was weird enough but this is not an octet or anything remotely
> resembling an addresse. Would anyone know what exactly that was? Is it
> supposed to be a working link or what?
Running this through a decoder for URL encoded strings you get:
http://362@374393/oyes
Looks like the @ has screwed the octet site address up, otherwise I guess
you would have ended up in the /oyes directory on that server. The format
here doesn't appear to match the http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for
passing a name and password in the URL to get around the basic
authentication dialog.
Dan
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