Review Request: Catch a bogus username in a url intented to fool a user into visiting a site unintentionally

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Thu May 26 06:00:34 BST 2011


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This review has been submitted with commit 3bbd4496bc8a01e80df61763bfd0347e8ba7f09a by Dawit Alemayehu.

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On May 25, 2011, 11:34 p.m., Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
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> (Updated May 25, 2011, 11:34 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
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> Summary
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> The attached KIO HTTP patch adds the same kind of preventative measure as Mozilla to stop a user from being fooled into visiting a site through the "bogus username" trick. For example, http://www.microsoft.com%26item%3Dq209354rexsddiuyjkiuylkuryt2583453453fsesfsdfsfasfdfdsf@www.kde.org/.
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> This addresses bug 94867.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94867
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> Diffs
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>   kioslave/http/http.cpp b937856 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101440/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested using the links provided in bug report a sample of which is provided in the description area above.
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> Thanks,
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> Dawit
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