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Re: URI handling woes in Acrobat Reader, Netscape, Miranda, Skype


From: "Gregory Rubin" <grrubin () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:41:29 -0700

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224816 <= Use ShellExecute to launch
the default Web browser

I agree that we need sanity checking on the applications accepting the
input, but the fact remains that ShellExecute is doing dangerous
things based on bad input.  Both application developers and Microsoft
should work on fixing this.

Greg Rubin
grrubin () gmail com
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