[3806] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape 'secret' codes and security implications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonid S Knyshov)
Sat Dec 14 21:27:33 1996
To: fritchie@MR.Net
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 15:34:37 PST
From: wiseleo@juno.com (Leonid S Knyshov)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Hmm, not all of them work the way they are supposed to in 3.01 Gold :(
In particular authors is removed, splash is not working, hype,
nothinginparticular and 1994 don't work as well...But you gave me an
idea to grep through my Netscape directory :)
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:14:07 -0600 Scott Lystig Fritchie
<fritchie@MR.Net> writes:
>>>>>> On Fri, 13 Dec 1996 02:33:04 -0500 (EST),
>htorgema@novice.uwaterloo.ca said:
>
>> If you
>> like hidden features, then try to type "about:1994" in the location
>> line of your favorite browser.
>
>That's a new one to me. In version 2 of Navigator I created a list of
>"about:" eggs by looking at ASCII strings in the executable. Here's
>my list, for what little it's worth:
>
> about:mozilla
> about:authors
> about:splash
> about:license
> about:plugins
Leo.
