The Underground Blog and URI hacking

[Kevin Ballard]

On Sep 8, 2005, at 10:29 PM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Yeah.  See dnshack.rb.

Ah hah.

> Excellent patch.  Now that's going in!

Glad to hear it :)

Now that I think about it some more, this hack isn't going to work if  
you pass a port number in (i.e. http://___._:8080/). Unfortunately I  
can't think of a fix, because this is a limitation in the regular  
expressions (it simply won't match, because _ isn't valid in a host  
and : isn't valid in a registry name). The only thing that would work  
is to completely re-define the regular expressions, which would be  
pretty ugly and fragile. However, right now that's not an issue, so  
as long as you don't try to run any services on a non-standard port  
from ___._, it should be ok.

-- 
Kevin Ballard
kevin at sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com
http://kevin.sb.org

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