Re: hwg-servers-digest V1 #3
by "Tom Towle" <webmaster(at)fielding.edu>
|
Date: |
Sun, 07 Nov 1999 16:27:03 -1000 |
To: |
hwg-servers(at)mail.hwg.org |
In-Reply-To: |
|
|
todo: View
Thread,
Original
|
|
>...
>> > I've just received an UBE from a (what else) porn site and the URL has me
>> > baffled :
>> > http://www.465.co7@2148225737/wildfire/?959595
>
>...
>
>> It is not as complicated as it seems! The syntax is
>> http://<username>:<password>@host/path
>> In this case they left the username out.
>
>Actually, I believe they left the password out. I often use the
>username@host syntax for accessing FTP sites. You'll then get a password
>dialog, if the site is in fact password protected. My guess would be
>that they are using the username as some soft of tracking device.
This is nasty. Wouldn't this present your e-mail address as password held
in your browser's settings to the server by nature of anonymous (?) FTP?
What a sleazy way of extracting addresses for SPAM if so.
Tom
Tom Towle - Webmaster - The Fielding Institute - (805) 898-4038
<mailto:webmaster(at)fielding.edu>webmaster(at)fielding.edu -
http://www.fielding.edu/
Member - IWA, HWG, AIP - International Webmasters Association,
HTML Writers Guild and Association of Internet Professionals
HWG: hwg-servers mailing list archives,
maintained by Webmasters @ IWA