Author Topic: HOWTO: Rewrite HTML body URLs to avoid absolute protocol references  (Read 4149 times)

Offline Paul B

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The Oracle says it in the opening sentences of this thread "One of the most common mistakes by web designers ... to account for poor programming"

When I went on the Teros (Application Firewall) course, one of the trainer's first comments was to explain the need for the product: "it's there to protect badly written websites"! Pretty similar thing eh?

And I'm sure there are PLENTY of those (eg amateur websites with forums etc hosted on an ISP's server). It only needs ONE of the websites to do something stupid (or rather "to allow a hacker to do something not so stupid :-)"), to potentially create a "hole" that can affect MANY other websites, properly written or not!


Paul