1470415 - Nasty link hijack in final code example in 'Introduction to the DOM > What is the DOM?'

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: DOM, defect)

Description

[judah]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Click URL in VS Code to follow link, then copied and paste URL into Chrome and Firefox Developer Edition
This is the link on line 32 of the HTML doc at bottom of page:

http://www.brownhen.com/dom_api_top.html


Actual results:

Link forwarded to a nasty page that simulated a windows virus infection and zoomed window full screen. On FDE it prompted for user/password. Bad news.


Expected results:

Reached a relevant web page

Comment 1

[judah]

Here is a direct link to the code on MDN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model/Introduction#Testing_the_DOM_API

Comment 2

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

So, this link has not changed since at least 2007. So the problem is actually that the site it links to has been attacked.

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

I've replaced the URL with a fake one.

Comment 4

[judah]

Hi Eric. I figured that it was an old site attack. Thanks for changing the URL in the code. However, since it's only a sample link to test DOM values, it just occurred to me that it could be changed to an empty link "#" to save confusion.

Cheers,
Judah