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This reminds me of what happened when Microsoft decided to trim known suffixes off displayed filenames. Has everybody forgotten the hot-babe.jpg.exe viruses?
by mansr 17y ago
This reminds me of what happened when Microsoft decided to trim known suffixes off displayed filenames. Has everybody forgotten the hot-babe.jpg.exe viruses? With unicode allowed in domain names, it's only a matter of time before someone registers http：／／gmail.com.
- nhebb 17y agoThey still do that. One of the first things I do on a new Windows system is to turn that "feature" off.
- pavlov 17y agoTo be fair, Mac OS X does the same by default.
- uriel 17y agoAnd worse, I have never figured out how the hell to disable that "feature" on OS X, I'm sure there is a way, but I wasted enough time pocking around the configuration options.
- superchink 17y agohttp://cl.ly/UA5 http://cl.ly/UA5 (Finder Preferences)
- edd 17y agoFinder > Preferences > Advanced > Show all filename extensions
- GHFigs 17y agoAn important difference is that you can still change the extension. Suppose you have a file called "foo.zip" and wish to change it to "foo.cbz" On Windows, renaming the file makes appears to work, and the interface will indeed show "foo.cbz". But what it actually does is rename the file "foo.cbz.zip". The actual extension remains entirely hidden and untouchable as long as the global option to hide extensions is turned on. On the Mac, changing the name to "foo.cbz" will prompt a warning that you might cause the file to open in a different application, and IIRC presents the options of naming it "foo.cbz.zip" or "foo.cbz". Neither approach is perfect, but I think what this illustrates is the difference between walling off complexity and just hiding it. We see the same difference with Chrome, as hiding http:// http:// is just visual, but the altered way of copying URLs to the clipboard is actually blocking the user's access to that complexity.
- diginux 17y agohttp://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?input=http：／／gmail.com&type=UTF8 http://mct.verisign-grs.com/conversiontool/convertServlet?in... Error:Input does not meet STD3 rules for domain name format.