urlopen exception

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Jan 10 21:49:26 EST 2009


Paul Rubin wrote:
> asit <lipun4u at gmail.com> writes:
>> site="www.bput.org"
>> payloads="<script>alert('xss')</script>"
>> attack= urllib2.urlopen(site+payloads,80).readlines()
>>
>> according to my best knowledge, the above code is correct.
>> but why it throws exceptio ????
> 
> The code is incorrect.  Look at the string ou are sending into
> urlopen.  What on earth are you trying to do?

He's investigating potential cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

regards
 Steve
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