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Re: HXXP browser protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Thu Sep 13 17:16:16 2012
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, "Matthew Black"
<Matthew.Black@csulb.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:15:28 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ED78B1C68B84A14FA706D13A230D7B43195DCB02@ITS-MAIL01.campus.ad.csulb.edu>
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> The reason I ask is that we received a security alert with a link
> hxxp://pastebin.com/###.
hxxp has been around for a long time. It's a lame hack that was never
widely accepted by browsers. The purpose was to have a clickable link
that didn't send a referer. (i.e. copy-n-paste) There was a firefox
plugin for one-click handling.
