Better error message for POST to restricted ports

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Wed Aug 21 19:49:24 BST 2002


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On Wednesday 21 August 2002 04:01 am, Molkentin, Daniel wrote:
> Moin!
>
> Some ports are restricted in Konqueror for POSTing (it was some security
> issue. Waldo, could you please explain?). 

Sending post request to ports that run other services than http can cause 
unwanted site effects that can be exploited by a malicious web-page.

Cheers,
Waldo
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