Firefox/Mozilla exploit semi-permanenet fix

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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...

Do you have an example of a real domain that uses them?

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