Re: AOL to Block Identity Theft Sites

Apr 22, 2005 0 Replies


>> In my opinion, all browsers should block or warn about references of the >> form:


>> yyyyy
>> where yyyyy is a URL that does not match xxxxx.
>> Simple - why don't they do it?
> Virtual hosts. I have half a dozen websites on a single IP; costs my
> customers less for web hosting. The only time it makes a difference
> is for vanity -- reverse host maps to forward host -- or for SSL. >

He wasn't talking about matching IP addresses. He was talking about HTML link tags where the reference in the tag doesn't match the text associated with the tag.


John Meissen snipped-for-privacy@aracnet.com

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