Re: Near-miss (entities, ninjas, and the Brandon Wheat Kings...)

[Kelson Vibber]

At 05:55 PM 5/19/2004, Bob Apthorpe wrote:
<A 
href="&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#58;&#47;&#47;Gabriel&#46;&#111;&#101;&#109;&#45;&#108;&#105;&#99;&#101;&#110;&#115;&#101;&#100;&#45;&#115;&#111;&#102;&#116;&#46;&#98;&#105;&#122;&#47;&#63;Bob"><STRONG>&#80;&#108;&#101;&#97;y&#115;&#101;&#32;&#102;&#111;&#108;&#108;&#111;&#119;f&#32;&#104;&#101;&#114;&#101;&#32;&#110;&#111;&#119;w&#33;</STRONG></A>

which translates to:
<A href="http://Gabriel.oem-licensed-soft.biz/?Bob";><STRONG>Pleayse 
followf here noww!</STRONG></A>

Question #0: Does _anything_ render that? Why?
Actually, that looks like 100% valid HTML, so it *should* be rendered by 
any HTML renderer (browser or embedded) - link and all.

I've done the same thing on web pages to obfuscate mailto: links and email 
addresses to make them harder to harvest.  This may signal the end of that 
technique's usefulness, though.

Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>