phishing detection bug

[Julian Field]

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Both problems fixed. Patch for latest Message.pm attached.
Aren't I nice to you lot :-)
Off to the bar shortly, well-earned drink needed.

John Wilcock wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Okay, a simple trap for this one would be that the real URL must contain
>> at least one "." character. How about that?
>
>
> What about octal IP-based hostnames?
>
> What about an intranet case, where a hostname only, with no domain part,
> could be perfectly valid? Then again this wouldn't be phishing fodder.
>
> To be sure though, how about requiring either a "." or a "/"?
>
> Apart from that, what about relative URLs used with a <BASE HREF=...>
> tag? Does your phishing net currently trap these anyway? If not, perhaps
> it should.
>
> John.
>
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