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Suggested Extension to Fix

Suggested Extension to Fix

Posted Feb 24, 2005 13:55 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Suggested Extension to Fix by Max.Hyre
Parent article: New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled (MozillaZine)

This sounds like a good idea -- maybe the tooltip to the url bar?

But... it would open another can of worms...

For instance, if you have two similar, but different, non-Latin glyphs, the only way to make certain that you are in the site for your bank is what it seems is knowing the punycode name.


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