Firefox/Mozilla exploit semi-permanenet fix

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 16:23 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:

> >No side effects? This allows all regular sites?
> 
> It should allow anything with legitimate ascii characters in the URL.

'legitimate'? I think my ??? are hardly bastards! Perhaps you meant 'the
traditional ASCII printable characters between 32 and 127'?

Although we do not use them, the official URL definition does allow
these characters in URLs. Up to two or so years ago, the Swedish NIC
would not allow domain names with '???'. They now do as it is an allowed
part of the standard. So, in this sense, '?????????' and so on are
legitimate...


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Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>