RE: Odd MSIE html parsing

From: Golden_Eternity (bhodi_jabirat_private)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 10:45:22 PST

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    Wasn't able to reproduce this with patched IE6 on 2k.
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Matthew S. Hallacy [mailto:poptixat_private]
    > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:36 AM
    > To: vuln-devat_private
    > Subject: Odd MSIE html parsing
    >
    >
    > I recieved an odd spam today, the links were obfuscated as follows:
    >
    > <A
    > HREF="http://www.ca1.waredet.net.co.fr^T^B^T^E^T|https.travel.bzah.com^B">
    >
    > clicking on the link in MSIE shows the following in the address bar:
    > 'http://www.ca1.waredet.net.co.fr(?????)|https.travel.bzah.com/'
    > while it's really going to https.travel.bzah.com (a stupid
    > angelfire spam site,
    > die die die)
    >
    > Comments? I'm curious as to why MSIE allows control characters in the url
    > like this, it didn't work in Mozilla.
    >
    > 				- Matthew S. Hallacy
    > --
    >
    



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