The topic is about how ASCII characters with bit 8 set are handled.
I haven't access to my sources right now, so I can't verfiy this.
If this is the case, the right thing to do would be do display any
characters > 0x7F as "undisplayable".
Ciao
Joerg
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Hi,
>2. affected software
>
>Only the InternetExplorer displays ASCII encoded web pages as 7 bit. We
>checked several hardware router and antivirus solutions, all of which
>failed to detect malicious JavaScript in manipulated web pages.
Ethereal (I can't bring myself to call it 'wireshark' yet) seems to be
vulnerable to the same problem. This is from the 'follow TCP stream'
dialog, showing the request and response for the PoC page:
GET /ASCII HTTP/1.1
Host: www.iku-ag.de
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4)
Gecko/20060504 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en,en-us;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=US-ASCII
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:21:54 GMT
c3
<html><head><title>ASCII Test</title></head><body><div style="border:
2px solid; padding: 5px; margin-left: 10px; background-color:
#ffffc0;">.......................................</body></html>
0
Hmmm, I just noticed Firefox's Accept-Charset header doesn't include
ASCII. Does the HTTP spec say that ASCII is the default charset?
/i
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