From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 8: 8:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0023837B5AF for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 44034 invoked by uid 100); 22 Apr 2001 15:08:23 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15074.62439.248138.908897@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:08:23 -0500 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Detecting mail client capabilities In-Reply-To: <46334405@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt types: > There is a way to extract the e-mail address from a Microsoft > browser, if you search around on the net you will find a website put > up by some guy that demonstrates the technique. Extraction takes > place without the user's knowledge, of course. From the rest of your comments, this sounds like the standard HTTP header "From", which supposedly contains the users email address, and was used by knowledgeable web applications programmers to set the default for email addresses on forms that needed it. Unfortunately, less scrupulous uses were found for it, so NetScape simply turned it off. Other browsers let you enable it if you want, but few people bother using it for anything that actually helps the user, so there's little point in enabling it. It wouldn't surprise me if MS left it on by default. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message