bugtraq - Re: Bypassing of web filters by using ASCII

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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:12:13 +0200
From: "Amit Klein (AKsecurity)" <aksecurity@...pop.com>
To: Vincent Archer <varcher@...yall.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, k.huwig@...-ag.de
Subject: Re: Bypassing of web filters by using ASCII


On 23 Jun 2006 at 10:35, Vincent Archer wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:08:56AM +0200, Amit Klein (AKsecurity) wrote:
> > So what I don't understand now is why IE's "solution" is any better than Opera/Firefox?
> > 
> > Why is modifying the data (msb) any better than modifying the data-description (charset)?
> 
> The same problem did exist in RFC821, which specified the data path as
> being 7-bit, with the MSB set to 0. The venerable ancestor sendmail did
> enforce that, by and-ing each and every byte with 0x7F, which means that
> the IE solution is "slightly better", due to historical precedent.
> 

If we're into precedences, does anyone know what Mosaic 1.0 used to do in such case? after 
all, it was probably the first widely used browser (see 
http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm), and it made some sense (in the early 90s) 
to conform to its de-facto browser standard.

> Not that it's good anyway.
>

Yep...

-Amit