full-disclosure - RE: FWD: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability

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From: lcamtuf at ghettot.org (Michal Zalewski)
Subject: RE: FWD: Internet Explorer URL parsing
 vulnerability

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, S G Masood wrote:

> http://www.microsoft.com%01@....linux.org
>  wont work until you
> unescape('http://www.microsoft.com%01@....linux.org');

Out of sheer curiosity (no MSIE at hand)... would it work with:

  <a href="http://A\x01@B">

...meaning, put literal ASCII character #001 in a href tag, as opposed to
using JavaScript or alikes?

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