full-disclosure - Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

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Message-ID: <4021798C.1070307@linux-gamers.net>
From: andreas.schneider at linux-gamers.net (Andreas 'GlaDiaC' Schneider)
Subject: Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

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The Netscape project is dead... you should check the Mozilla Suite or
Mozilla Firebird :)

http://www.mozilla.org/

Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
| Since the IE browser no longer allows the @ sign in a uri, you can no
| longer download files from some vendors' sites.  Still works in Netscape
| 7.1, however.  So far I've found three sites, but I haven't done an
| extensive investigation.  These are just ones that I've stumbled across.
| The most interesting one is NAI's download site for enterprise licensed
| software packages.  (I suppose, if one was ambitious, one could google
| for @?)
|
| I wonder how many other vendors are "cheating" on the RFCs to facilitate
| browser interaction?
|
| Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
| Adjunct Information Security Officer
| The University of Texas at Dallas
| AVIEN Founding Member
| http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
|
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