* Cedric Duval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-19 09:43:57 +0100]:
>John Buttery said:
>> * "Carl B. Constantine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-03-18 08:43:58 -0800]:
>> >all I get at this page is the following:
>> >
>> ><HEAD><DEFANGED_META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0" 
>URL="http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/";></HEAD>
>> >
>> >that is displayed in NS 6.2.1 (solaris).
>> 
>>   You have a proxy server that is "defanging" tags for you (to protect
>> from malicious META headers, Javascript, yadda yadda).
>
>Really, is there some content that could be seen as "malicious" in this
>page?
>
>It passes all W3C validator checks, and there is no javascript, so there
>should be no problem (here, at least, it works well with Mozilla 0.9.8,
>NS 4.7, Dillo and lynx)
>
>That's what I thought at first: a temporary overloaded server.  ;)
>But you're right, it must be a proxy problem on Carl's side. (and it is
>merely OT here)

  Well, the heuristic is probably "any meta tag".  :)  But yeah, that's
what it is.  I have a procmail-based filter that does the same thing to
HTML email; that's how I recognized it.  It disables potentially
dangerous code by changing its leading tag to DEFANGED_*.

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