--- 404 <matthew@textbox.net> wrote:
> 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...
>
>
I would expect to see "www.pаypal.com/" In the status bar, but I
see "www.paypal.com" with either setting in firefox. Is this not what I
should be looking at? By the way, I get the same results in IE.
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