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Subject: 
Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:03:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Let's try an experiment.  Let's encode the URL that gets passed to jump.cgi
> > two different ways:  one with an unencoded colon and one with an encoded
> > colon.  The two URL versions appear here on a test page:
> > 
> >    http://www.lugnet.com/test/jump/colontest.html
> 
> Very slow both times. I had been to Yahoo earlier in the day including that
> exact URL and hadn't flushed any caches.
> 
> Don't forget, though, that this may not be the best test destination, since
> www.yahoo.com isn't a single DNS location, it's many, due to that technology
> whose name I can't remember... Akatomi?
> 
> Doing a tracert to www.yahoo.com shows that I was actually trying to get to
> www.yahoo.akadns.net [216.32.74.52]

Ah.  Let's try a different URL, then.  You name it.  And let's put in a raw
IP address as well, so we can rule out DNS.

--Todd



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(...) Sounds good in theory, but I confess I don't know one offhand that would be a good test. Large ones are likely to use caching weirdness and small ones may have thin pipes that might throw us off. Or so I surmise. Hmm... how about my firm? as (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
 
(...) exact URL and hadn't flushed any caches. Don't forget, though, that this may not be the best test destination, since www.yahoo.com isn't a single DNS location, it's many, due to that technology whose name I can't remember... Akatomi? Doing a (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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