[3913] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Netscape 'secret' codes and security implications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (htorgema@novice.uwaterloo.ca)
Sat Dec 28 23:04:17 1996
From: htorgema@novice.uwaterloo.ca
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 21:04:55 -0500 (EST)
To: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612281258.NAA10477@internal-mail.systemics.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, Gary Howland wrote:
> Check this out:
>
> wysiwyg://www.ibm.com/helen-duval.com/Img0001.jpg
>
> Not really what you'd expect to find at IBM, is it?
>
> I've just checked a few netscape easter egg sites, and none of them mention
> the wysiwyg method.
The wysiwig method is used when a javascript program dynamically writes
into an html document..
The usual result is something like:
wysiwyg://315/http://www.a_site.com/index.html
Where 315 is a value internally used by Navigator to keep track of the
javascript-created document.
Note that with Netscape 3.0, when the document is a mix of loaded html
and dynamically generated html, the location textfield keeps the original
url. However, if you use view-source, you'll see the title of the window
is "Netscape: Source of: wysiwyg://..."
Henri
PS: I apologize to all those of you deseperately waiting for on-topic
messages..
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Henri Torgemane http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~htorgema/
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