On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Ron Currier wrote:
> There have been several questions over the last couple of weeks about
> displaying external images in HTML formatted e-mails and the answer
> is always that it is a security risk. Could someone (Sam?) please
> explain where the risk is? The browser will fetch the URL and attempt
> to render the file based on the file extension. The renderer will fail
> if it isn't a valid/known image format. The file may be left in the
> browser's cache, but unless you are in the habit of attempting to
> manually execute random files in your cache, I don't see where the
> risk is.
Automatic image loading can also be used as delivery notification for
address harvesting. Encode a unique image URL into each E-mail that you
send out ...
When the image is loaded, you know the recipient has opened your message.
It -would- be slick to have a button, much like the "Full Headers" button,
that changed from munged to un-munged images, though.
I like the default behaviour.
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Charlie Watts
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Frontier Internet
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