Bugtraq: Re: Bypassing of web filters by using ASCII

[Vincent Archer <varcher () denyall com>]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:12:13PM +0200, Amit Klein (AKsecurity) wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2006 at 10:35, Vincent Archer wrote:
> > The same problem did exist in RFC821, which specified the data path as
> > being 7-bit, with the MSB set to 0. The venerable ancestor sendmail did
> > enforce that, by and-ing each and every byte with 0x7F, which means that
> > the IE solution is "slightly better", due to historical precedent.
> If we're into precedences, does anyone know what Mosaic 1.0 used to do in such case? after 
Mosaic didn't really handle charsets.

It used Motif as the underlying toolkit, and rendered the binary text stream
using XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET, which could default to ISO 8859-1 most of
the time, or something else if you tweaked your X11 installation and
properties.

So, basically, Mosaic worked as firefox/opera do, not as IE.

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