@Mike Hood: We certainly have not seen such link before. It probably uses the IDN technique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name) which allows Unicode characters in the domain name and let the browsers compile them into the DNS-friendly format of http://xn--5dbdahbbsfcbcb2bp5c0fmffvii.com/bowwow77.html .
ORF uses complex logic to discover URL domains in the message body, but as it does not support IDN transcoding for lookups, even if it finds the domain name, it will not be able to look it up.
If IDN will get widely abused by the spammers, we will take steps to prevent such spam from slipping thru.
ORF uses complex logic to discover URL domains in the message body, but as it does not support IDN transcoding for lookups, even if it finds the domain name, it will not be able to look it up.
If IDN will get widely abused by the spammers, we will take steps to prevent such spam from slipping thru.
Peter Karsai (ORF Team)
(August 13, 2010)
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The link does work and after manually typing in the link it was reported to uribl but since orf was unable to see the actual link it passed.
is this new?