Vulnerability Development: RE: Plain text files in internet explorer

["Dom De Vitto" <dom () DeVitto com>]

| -----Original Message-----
| From: bonnetain () acm org [mailto:bonnetain () acm org] 
| Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:07 AM
| To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
| Subject: Re: Plain text files in internet explorer
| 
|    Names are not type, and should not be. Here, in France, anyone
called Jean is a man. In | English-speaking zones, it's a woman. You
could run into troubles by 'type-interpreting
| based on name'.

Agreed.
 
|    Just my .02 cents (of euros, not dollars; almost the same thing
today).

Not Canadian dollars... again, "words mean what I want them to mean"
said Humpty Dumpy,
You forgot to mention that http://a.b.c/d.e/f.g.h can run:
/d
/d.e
/d.e/f
/d.e/f.g
/d.e/f.g.h
/d.e/f.g.h/default.whatever

So filenames should be for names, not types.
If you've ever tried mixing Hungarian notation with object orientation,
you'll
run up against the same (big) problem. Names are names and types are
types, they
are, and should be, unrelated.

Dom De Vitto
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