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RE: Embedded certificate image

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 30 July 2009 08:03 UTC

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Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com> writes:

>I guess that if the image is embedded in the URL, you don't really need to 
>follow it, just process it locally.

In that case why encode it as a URL in the first place?

Peter.

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