From: "John Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 01:46, John Fawcett wrote:
>
>
> > In order to obtain the 302 code the browser sees
> > 2 things are necessary:
> > 1. Add a / before the * (That is the correct format for
> > yahoo redirection)
> > 2. Change the hTtP:\\ to hTtP:// (The mixed case is not a problem)
>
> I think fixing all backslashes to forward slashes in the URL before
> processing by SURBL would deal with both cases.
>
> Are (unescaped or unencoded) backslashes even *valid* in URLs?
Um, who cares? If the email programs parse them the way the spammers
want then we need to catch them parsed the way the spammers want. Of
course we COULD simply dump emails containing illegitimate back slashes
if nothing Microsoftish produces legitimate emails with backslashes.
I do not want to bet on that.
{^_^}
