> Behalf Of Bill Manning
> steve bellovin and jck have very good advice. > > my question... what happens when you use address literals in > the URL; > i.e. > > http(s)://192.02.80/index.php You end up checking code paths that it is very unlikely many browser authors checked. You can actually buy certs that bind to the IP address, the only point being to turn on encryption. Unfortunately the padlock icon user interface fails at this point. It actually means 'communication is encrypted', it is interpreted (entirely reasonably) by the user as 'I am secure'. Perhaps if we spent some time training programmers to write user interfaces they would spend less time talking about training users to navigate their creations. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
