[Mailman-i18n] Pipermail and non-English lists

Barry A. Warsaw barry@python.org
Thu Nov 21 13:41:27 2002


>>>>> "JH" == James Henstridge <james@daa.com.au> writes:

    JH> It looks like the default Apache 2.0 config includes this
    JH> directive (and so do a number of distributors' apache-1.3
    JH> packages), so we decided to switch back to outputting
    JH> ISO-8859-1, and encoding other codepoints as character
    JH> references.

Ouch. :(
    
    JH> The comments in the config file say that they add the charset
    JH> to the content-type to work around security bugs in some web
    JH> browsers.

Yeah, but the online docs make no mention of this.  What specifically
are the security vulnerabilities?

-Barry



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