draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http security considerations
Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> Sat, 20 February 2010 08:00 UTC
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Reviewing: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http-09.txt I note that the security considerations section says nothing about possible character "spoofing" - i.e. making a displayed prompt or value appear to be something other than it is. E.g. Non-ASCII characters have been used to set up exploits involving dodgy URIs that may appear to a user to be legitimate. #g
- draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http security considerat… Graham Klyne
- Re: draft-reschke-rfc2231-in-http security consid… Julian Reschke