From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2003 - 08:45:30 EDT
On 30/09/2003 03:44, Jill Ramonsky wrote:
> ... Plus, you'd have to find a user dumb enough to be running a
> sufficiently old browser that it was still prone to this exploit. (I'm
> pretty sure modern browsers will have closed that hole by now, but
> again, you never know). ...
But the whole motivation for the server changing the encoding is based
on the assumption that users are likely to be running sufficiently old
browsers that they don't recognise UTF-8 as an encoding.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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