FWIW I tried to go to the "unencoded" address below and Netscape fails the DNS lookup, so that browser doesn't do translation.
Also, it looks like somebody has been listening. I tried to go the the bogus site just now and received a "document not found" in Russian and English. - Larry At 10:39 PM 9/25/03 -0700, you wrote: > >On 2003.09.25 21:53, Rob Rogers wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 20:00:51PM -0700, Mitch Patenaude wrote: >> Sorry. I was thinking back to my earlier email where I was discussing >> encoding a domain name to look innocuous. Here was my example: >> >> http://www.citibank.com%2e%61%33%6b%73%64%2e%50%69%53%65%4d%2e%4e%65%54 >> >> which unencoded becomes http://www.citibank.com.a3ksd.PiSeM.NeT >> (using the actual base domain from the original email) >> >> This much your browser would have to decode to do a DNS lookup, and >> I've never seen a browser show it encoded. Whether or not it sends >> it encoded in the referer, I can't speak with any authority, but I >> highly doubt it does. As for anything after the servername and/or >> port #, I realize it does send that encoded. I appologize for not >> making myself clear at first. > >The browser doesn't decode this anywhere. If you try to connect to >http://%61mazon.com/ that's exactly what it will try to look up the IP >address for so that it can connect. Not "amazon.com". %encoding is just >a clever hack to send data to a server, not an "official" alternate way >of specifying the location of a document. > >-- >I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. >See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. >My key was last signed 6/10/2003. If you use GPG, *please* see me about >signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** > >Attachment Converted: "e:\eudora\attach\Re [vox-tech] OT one of the m1" > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
