yes, yes,.... but the query to Roland was/is, what happens in his particular situation? Do address literals bypass the ISP redirect?
--bill On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 07:03:49AM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > > > > 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
