From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-03 07:00:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <8766c7h2zm.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <5m0a7.21097$Kd7.13099003@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <87r8uvuu48.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9hja7.1803$tQ5.728008@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> Subject: Evil browser-specific web sites (was: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 10:00:19 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:00:19 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11207 Date: 2001-08-03T14:00:19+00:00 List-Id: In article <9hja7.1803$tQ5.728008@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, chris.danx says... >"Florian Weimer" wrote in message >news:87r8uvuu48.fsf@deneb.enyo.de... >> Ah, I see. Here's an interesting resource: >> >> http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/papers/B5000.html > >That is just plain rediculous! What a lot of s**t! I cannot gain access to >it simply because I'm an IE user! :-) Now you know how we Mozilla users feel about all those stupid IE-only sites. :-) I *have* to use IE for newsreading, because my free newsreader service (newsranger) refuses to fix some IE-extensions they put in the posting code (causing postings made with other browsers to wrap in a really stupid manner). I even went so far as to look at the HTML source and debug the issue myself, but they don't care. And of course this is exactly what Microsoft was hoping would happen when they introduced their browser extensions. Not that I support what this site did to you (acutally, *us*, as I clicked it from my news browser window and got the same message). Two wrongs don't make right, and this is *just* as bad and obnoxious as all those IE-specific sites out there. However, I hope you can now at least see the larger issue for what it is. As a counter-measure, I'd feel better about just refusing to link to any browser-specific sites. If they don't want to be part of the platform-independent internet as it was intended to be, then we should *let* them be their own separate IE-internet. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com