Bug 278301
Summary: | pidgin loads firefox with wrong url when domain name is internationalized | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Alexander Todorov <atodorov> |
Component: | pidgin | Assignee: | Warren Togami <wtogami> |
Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 5.1 | CC: | stu |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
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Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-10-04 14:09:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Alexander Todorov
2007-09-05 12:44:38 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. Since this bugzilla is in a component that is not approved for the current release, it has been closed with resolution deferred. You may reopen this bugzilla for consideration in the next release. The correct behavior of pidgin would need to be translating the unicode into IDN before passing it as a parameter to the web browser. http://developer.pidgin.im/ Please file a bug with upstream for them to consider support of IDN translation, or a suggested patch if you have a proposed solution. We will only ship fixes that are accepted by upstream. http://www.google.com/search?q=IDN+spoof This however might make pidgin vulnerable to the IDN spoofing phishing security hole. There is an important security reason why IDN display was disabled in web browsers. It is too easy to fool someone into clicking something that appears to be one address when it is really something different. (In reply to comment #2) > http://developer.pidgin.im/ > Please file a bug with upstream for them to consider support of IDN translation. Unfortunately their server can't handle the load. I will retry later to file upstream. Filed upstream at http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3445 |