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- Subject: [Discuss] some people help too much
- From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:29:02 -0400
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On 9/19/2015 3:51 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Short funny story. > > They other day I was setting up a router and in the docs it said to > go to (don't click here) 'http://sprinthotspot'. No ending. The > router I suppose then shows you the config page. But my browser, in > this case Safari, automatically appended a .com or something which > sent me to an attack site. Brilliant. That's actually worse than M$. On the very rare occasion I have to use IE for something, it does something that always irritated me: if you type a raw ip address in the address bar without also typing the full 'http://', IE will not make a request to the IP you told it to. Rather, it will do a bing /search/ for that IP. I suppose that's more of a nuisance though compared to what Safari is doing, which has a very real chance of causing harm right out of the gate (doing a bing/google search for 127.0.0.1 isn't going to have an attack site on the first few pages). Matt
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