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. >
> 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

I missed the original posting but most of the href's I've ever seen are on the original form where xxxxx does not match yyyyy. For instance: www,telecom-digest.org (that's www comma ...).


- David

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