Hi John

Registry-Fix can be downloaded at http://www.mhs.ch/mhsservices/patch.shtml

Matthias


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Morgan Salomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [swinog] Microsoft Internet Explorer Patch 834489


> Wasn't there a way to fix this in the registry?
>
> The main beef I have with this patch is that it turns
> all '@' in the url into 'bad syntax'.  Contrary to what
> most people think, having a username in the url does NOT
> violate any RFCs.  2396 just recommends against passwords
> in the URL, but it does make allowance for usernames.
>
> The problem with Mozilla (although I use it under FreeBSD) is
> that it can be p***-slow on Windows boxes.  Rather use Opera if you
> want a nice fast browser (and don't mind non-freeware.)  Browser
> religious wars, here we go :)
>
> -John
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Daniel Lorch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:14:45 +0100
> Subject: Re: [swinog] Microsoft Internet Explorer Patch 834489
>
> > hi again
> >
> > > Microsoft has released a IE patch Number 834489. This patch makes URLs
> like
> > > http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] unusable. Since we have a
few
> > > applications (intranets, closed user groups, a.s.o) running which use
this
> > > kind of verification, our customers are running into problems after
> applying
> > > this patch.
> >
> > At my last workplace I suggested to replace all the m$ software
> > with Mozilla's suite, that is replace OE with Thunderbird and
> > and IE with Firefox (yeah, just got renamed from Firebird):
> >
> >    http://www.mozilla.org/
> >
> > give it a shot ;) people actually enjoyed using these programs
> > and preferred to use them.
> >
> > daniel
> >
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