Re: PROPOSAL: i74: Encoding for non-ASCII headers

At 03:28 08/04/01, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
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>On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>> But at least IE6 has optional support for sending URLs using raw  
>> UTF-8,
>> and it do send raw UTF-8 in the Host header in such setups..
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>Whoa, that will open up a new can of security worms.

Do you mean due to the nature of UTF-8, or due to
implementations that didn't do enough defensive programming?

Some of this has been around for quite a while.
With security, there is no 100%, but the chances are that
potential security holes have already received some
scrutinity.

Regards,    Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp     

Received on Tuesday, 1 April 2008 06:26:33 UTC