full-disclosure - Re: another product affected by recent MS IE '@' patch

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Message-ID: <20040208215236.GA21824@piper.madduck.net>
From: madduck at madduck.net (martin f krafft)
Subject: Re: another product affected by recent MS IE '@' patch

also sprach Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk> [2004.02.08.2108 +0100]:
> Actually, it is _far_ from a _typical_ MS fix.

thanks for your reply, it made me check out rfc 1630 and, tataa,
user:pass@...ver/url is non-standard. thus, this is in fact the most
surprising fix from M$ in a long time.

> Second, it is very unlike MS to "fix" something when they know it will 
> break some systems based on the "broken" behaviour.

unless of course it could harm competitors. then they will gladly do
so.

> > ... and absolutely ridiculous), ...
> 
> Ahhhh -- so you're another genius who believes it is "ridiculous" to 
> implement standards-conforming behavior?  Or are you another genius who 
> believes it is ridiculous for MS to implement improved security 
> behaviour in its historically insecure web browser?
> 
> Or perhaps you believe _both_ changes are ridiculous?

i retract my statement. i wrote that message on the train without
access to the RFC. i should have known better.

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