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Re: HXXP browser protocol


From: Sean Harlow <sean () seanharlow info>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:25:16 -0400

On Sep 13, 2012, at 17:21, Landon Stewart wrote:

All true and commonly used but it's worth mentioning that putting a space before the dot TLD is a better way to 
prevent auto linking in email/IM clients since most of them detect the formation URLs by other means rather than rely 
on the exitence of http://.

Certainly true, the machine I'm currently responding on runs Apple Mail 5.2 and does turn it in to a link, but since 
hxxp is an invalid protocol it doesn't do anything useful with it.  Clicking the link just gives a "no associated 
application" error, so the practical result is the same.
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Sean Harlow
sean () seanharlow info

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