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Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 07:30:47 +1100
From: Paul Szabo <psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Firefox explicit charset inheritance

I found that Firefox 2.0.0.10 will inherit the charset of the parent
page, when that had been selected manually (does not inherit the charset
specified in headers or meta). I found this inheritance to work both
with [a href] links and [iframe src] in the parent page.

See also:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356280

Cheers,

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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