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Re: [TLS] Connection diversion to other subdomains

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Thu, 18 November 2010 00:46 UTC

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For anyone following this story:

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 00:01 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> [...] though on one major web site which I won't name, it led to XSS.

This was Mozilla.  They have corrected the issue.  Here's the bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607807

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Matt

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