Re: IDN problem.... :( from Adam Twardoch on 2005-02-13 (www-international@w3.org from January to March 2005)

From: Adam Twardoch <list.adam@twardoch.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:38:54 +0900
To: www-international@w3.org
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hudson" <tiro@tiro.com>

>The security issue is simply due to the fact that some characters 
>typically look identical to other characters. So change the appearance.

Nah. It's poor design of IDN. They should have disallowed mixing 
characters from different scripts in one URL. It wouldn't have ruled out 
all of the problems, but most of them.

A.

Received on Monday, 14 February 2005 00:53:14 UTC