On Mon, Mar 11, 2002, Alon Altman wrote about "Re: [Humour] This is hilarious... ;-)": > > it's a valid url, just not the url most people think it is. > > Well, no it isn't. From RFC1738: > > host > The fully qualified domain name of a network host, or its IP > address as a set of four decimal digit groups separated by > ".". [snipped]
This is probably technically correct (and squid probably adheres to the standard), but for some weird reason, both Mozilla and IE actually accept such 32-bit integer URLs. Maybe someone should report this in bugzilla? Mozilla are known to be strict about following standards, even at the cost of not working on stuff that IE works on. Spammers are known to use such URLs in spams to "obfuscate" the real site they're sending you to (e.g., they don't want you to see "www.geocities.com" in the URL). Of course, any email carrying such a is 99.9% sure to be spam, so one of the recipes in my procmail arsenal is marking everything matching (^|\<)http://[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] as spam (an additional ...@ regular expression can be added to catch that case too). Before anyone asks (and they always do...), no, my spam filters didn't eat this thread on Linux-il. They do not act on mailing-list mail, which is sent to seperate folders. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Mar 12 2002, 28 Adar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |If you choke a Smurf, what color does it http://nadav.harel.org.il |turn? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
