Bogus Login

UO!BogusLogin!HTML

  06 April 2003

Description

Use URL username@host syntax to disguise a URL.

Example

<a href="http://1011100110010010100101010101010101010010110010100110011000101010 10010101010010101001010010101010100110011010101010010101001010011001010101010101 01011011010011100110@%68%6B%2E%67%65%6F%63%69%74%69%65%73%2E%63%6F%6D/%6C%6F%76% 65%67%69%6C%6C%67%69%6C%6C"><font color="#FFFFFF">Click Here</font></a>

This example also use % encoding of the URL to further disguise it.

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