Re: More Internet Explorer zone confusion

From: iversen (signal11at_private)
Date: Mon Mar 08 1999 - 09:07:19 PST

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    Oliver Lineham wrote:
    >  - New TLDs. Internic goes and adds a .web or .store or something that
    > didn't exist when the browser was released. I'm sure all the e-commerce
    > sites on .store would love their servers being considered "Local Intranet
    > Sites"!
    >
    > If this is how the zones are implemented, then its insane. If not, then
    > IE's claim of being able to distinguish intranet sites from internet ones
    > is an outright lie and the "feature" should be removed.
    
    
    This seems to be trivial to resolve - put everything in the internet zone
    unless it matches a list containing the local intranets.  Then do
    reverse-dns
    of everything that's allegedly inside the intranet and make sure everything
    matches up.  It isn't a perfect solution, but it would make it substantially
    harder to fake a remote site as local.  You also get the added benefit of
    not needing to worry about how IE resolves domains/ip addresses.
    
    
    
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