RE: Phishing

[Adam Lydick <lydickaw () ruffledpenguin org>]

I certainly agree with that. It is mostly significant because that
misfeature can be removed without violating explicit standards. I
believe a recent update to internet explorer does remove this capability
from http links.

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:05 +0100, Griffiths, Ian wrote:
> I wasn't aware of this Adam.
>  
> It is certainly supported in enough browser to be significant.
>  
> Ian
>
>       -----Original Message----- 
>       From: Adam Lydick [mailto:lydickaw () ruffledpenguin org] 
>       Sent: Fri 14/05/2004 05:55 
>       To: Griffiths, Ian 
>       Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com 
>       Subject: RE: Phishing
>       
>       
>
>       while the generic description of URLs in an
>       earlier RFC allows for "user@", the use of it is on a
>       protocol-by-protocol basis and HTTP urls do not permit its use.)