On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 18:35, 404 wrote:
> This is pretty shocking, a new URL spool vuln that does not include IE!
>
> http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt
Simple workaround/fix:
1) Goto your Firefox address bar. Enter about:config and press enter.
Firefox will load the (large!) config page.
2) Scroll down to the line beginning network.enableIDN -- this is
International Domain Name support, and it is causing the problem here.
We want to turn this off -- for now. Ideally we want to support
international domain names, but not with this problem.
3) Double-click the network.enableIDN label, and Firefox will show a
dialog set to 'true'. Change it to 'false' (no quotes!), click Ok. You
are done.
4) Go check out the shmoo demo again and notice it no longer works.
I have heard that this fix does not work sometimes in the windoze
versions of Firefox/Mozilla, it works just fine in the Linux versions...
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