Phillip Vandry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:47:14PM +0000, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: >> Mozilla Foundation has announced changes to Firefox concerning >> Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to deal with homograph spoofing >> attacks. > > Does anyone else think that it's not the job of a web browser to do > this? The web browser shouldn't even know about IDN details. The > system's resolver library should convert non ASCII labels to the > Punycode representation when sending querries, and convert back > after receiving responses! > > Otherwise how can all my applications support IDN?
Please read RFC 3490. Bjørn
