Full Disclosure: Re: Stealing Browser History Without Using JavaScript

From: Ben Bucksch <news_at_bucksch.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:15:07 +0100

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777

Using CSS :visited with CSS background-image is a nice idea (not sure
whether new, would need to read the bug).

Note that this is not an implementation but, but a problem in the CSS spec.

RSnake wrote:
> In case anyone is interested, I was able to port the old CSS
> history hacking stuff that Jeremiah Grossman originally found to a
> version that does not require JavaScript to fire using images and
> conditional logic built into CSS using a:visited and display attributes.
> It works in both IE7.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.2. Details at the link below:
>
> http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070228/steal-browser-history-without-javascript/
>

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Received on Feb 28 2007