IDN issues in mozilla/firefox.

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Feb 19 17:00:16 PST 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 01:43 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Seems that mozilla people find another temp solution to the IDN 
> homograph spoofing attack.
> 
> This can be found at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282270
> 
> And make my works on PR ports/77744 outdated.

Outdated when Mozilla 1.8b1 comes out, but acceptable for now.

> 
> We may move this to network.IDN_show_punycode (default true) for 
> mozilla-1.7.6, mozilla-1.8b1 and firefox 1.0.1

If that option is available in those builds, then we will definitely
adopt this over disabling IDN support.

> 
> Also, I found that my calendar problems with 1.8a6 may come from the 
> change of libical, from other-licenses to calendar.

What problems? The only thing I see is that we have an old reinplace
looking in other-licenses for the libical code.

Joe

P.S. In your recent mozilla-devel patch, the shared browser plug-ins
directory is browser_plugins and not browser-plugins.


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