Re: Sorry
Re: Sorry
- Subject: Re: Sorry
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:48:26 +0100
on 1/7/04 7:41 pm, Charles Arthur at email@hidden wrote:
>
Hmm, very interesting. Doesn't auto-run. But one could imagine that you'd
>
only have to change the thing you had in the window to ".app" and it would.
>
(Might it?)
No.
This isn't some weird voodoo or malicious hack. The "applescript://" scheme
is described here:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/12.html
I saw it a couple of months back and thought it was interesting.
Today, I was experimenting with a couple of URL protocols and thought I'd
try to see if any of the URL redirection services would accept a URL with an
"applescript://" prefix.
My favourite service ShorterLink.com would not accept the URL as it adds
"
http://"; to any urls that don't already include this.
The reason that it is my favourite redirection service is that it allows you
to see the destination URL before taking you there - which is important
nowadays.
My second favourite redirection service accepted the applescript:// prefix
without a problem.
Depending on your POV this could be a good or a bad thing - I think that is
pretty good because:
Being able to distribute scripts using short URLs that don't break in emails
or Usenet posts is a good thing.
Being able to distribute URLs without having to make up web pages and store
them on a web site that you have to pay for is another good thing.
>
Faintly scary. I thought it was just the Windows users who were meant to
>
get things popping up on their machine when they clicked a link.
The fact that it opens script editor may be a bit shocking, but it can't
compile or run the script.
And as for popping stuff up when you click a link, you've been able to do
that ever since the file:// scheme was introduced - here are a couple I
prepared earlier...
This should resolve to 127.0.0.1:
http://tinyurl.com/30j9
This should open a Finder window at /var/log and highlight the system.log
file:
http://tinyurl.com/3885n
This one will tell you that your machine has been hacked and show the
contents of your hostconfig file:
http://www.tristimulus.co.uk/hackIt/
It's bullshit of course, but you can easily get local data into a browser
frame using local URLs like that.
Regards
--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com
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