Re: Sorry
Re: Sorry
- Subject: Re: Sorry
- From: Dave Balderstone <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:21:19 -0600
As a matter of policy I do not click links that have been hidden by one
of the redirect services. Period.
djb
On Jul 1, 2004, at 4:48 PM, Martin Orpen wrote:
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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