Closed Bug 166374 Opened 22 years ago Closed 8 years ago

URL character mask for external protocols

Categories

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Windows 98
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: benc, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted) 

Darin and I have spoken about this in the context of telnet:, but I am also
thinking this might be relevant to the new interest that gopher: and finger:
have generated.

If we are going to support URL's that point to external protocol handlers, it
seems that we should provide some facility for masking the URLs, and making
things like illegal characters in DNS and control-characters in interactive
sessions go away.

Darin had a couple examples for telnet, and I think we have good examples in
bugzilla for ftp and gopher as well.

Finger is a pretty notoriously insecure service already, I think I had seen some
really bad hostname parsing in it when I tested it about a year ago as well.
Keywords: helpwanted
Severity: normal → enhancement
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Is finger external?
finger is internal, if enabled - it's an optional extension; but I don't know if
it's enabled by default or not.
finger is disabled by default.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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