1. RE: the latest MS tech manual
Wow. I thought it was microsoft... If it's not, how come MS is in the URL
still? I didn't examine it too closely, yet. Is it in a frame or something?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jzeitlin at cyburban.com [mailto:jzeitlin at cyburban.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:43 AM
> To: EUforum
> Subject: Re: the latest MS tech manual
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:10:31 -0800, Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:
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> >You haveto read this one!!!
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> >http://www.microsoft.com&item=q209354 at hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q
209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm
>LOL
>Kat
It's definitely well-done. Be advised that it is _not_ on Microsoft's web
site, and if MS knew about it, they'd go massively non-linear and cast
"Summon Lawyers" against hardware.no and hwnd.net.
--
Jeff Zeitlin
jzeitlin at cyburban.com
2. RE: the latest MS tech manual
Here is an excellent link on how URLs can be obscured. It explains how and
why the link you sent appears to be from Microsoft, as well as many other
deceptions!
<http://www.macalester.edu/cit/reference/obscurl.htm>
--On Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:17 AM -0600 "C. K. Lester"
<cklester at yahoo.com> wrote:rr
>
> Wow. I thought it was microsoft... If it's not, how come MS is in the URL
> still? I didn't examine it too closely, yet. Is it in a frame or
> something?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jzeitlin at cyburban.com [mailto:jzeitlin at cyburban.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:43 AM
>> To: EUforum
>> Subject: Re: the latest MS tech manual
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 04:10:31 -0800, Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> wrote:
>>
>> > You haveto read this one!!!
>>
>> > http://www.microsoft.com&item=q209354 at hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q
> 209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm
>
>> LOL
>> Kat
>
> It's definitely well-done. Be advised that it is _not_ on Microsoft's web
> site, and if MS knew about it, they'd go massively non-linear and cast
> "Summon Lawyers" against hardware.no and hwnd.net.
> --
> Jeff Zeitlin
> jzeitlin at cyburban.com
>
>
>
>
3. RE: the latest MS tech manual
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:14:33 -0800, "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Wow. I thought it was microsoft... If it's not, how come MS is in the URL
>still? I didn't examine it too closely, yet. Is it in a frame or something?
Looking at the URI, we see that there's an @ before the first /. That's
the signal; it means that you're theoretically authenticating to the domain
between the @ and the /, and the information between the http:// and the @
is the authentication information.
>> >http://www.microsoft.com&item=q209354 at
>> >hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the authentication information. This is the actual domain.
Normally, in a site where authentication is required, the authentication
information is of the form username:password. But if no authentication is
require, the server will ignore any authentication information supplied,
and you can put anything you want there. Which is what was done here. It
could have been posted as http://hardware.no/nyheter/..., and it would have
worked just as well.
--
Jeff Zeitlin
jzeitlin at cyburban.com
