phishing

I've noticed for a very long time that when you try to copy a link location or open a link on Facebook, it modifies the link and passes it through l.php . For example, I can be sent to http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&h=DKVUritNDJDJLDLVbldoDLFKBLOD5dlfDJY_-d3fgDUaA9b even though my browser render the link preview as http://www.google.com/ . Today, I took a closer look using Firebug and found that Facebook puts onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this)[...] in the <a> tag. The second I right clicked the link, I saw the href attribute change in Firebug. This

As seen in GitHub's blog , they've implemented HTML5's JavaScript pushState feature for tree browsing (for modern browsers), bringing AJAX navigation without Hash Bangs . The code is simple: $('#slider a').click(function() { history.pushState({ path: this.path }, '', this.href) $.get(this.href, function(data) { $('#slider').slideTo(data) }) return false }) This quite elegantly allows them to: Request the just the new content through AJAX instead of a full page Animate the transition And change the browsers URL (not just the # , as Twitter does — twitter.com/stackexchange → twitter.com/#!

Suppose we have an application that acts as a middleman, allowing Company A to send reports to their customers. Company A --> Company B (me)--> Company A's customers After getting the report we send email notifications to the recipients, but they necessarily originate from our company notifications email address e.g. joe.bloggs@a.com --> notifications@b.com --> peter@c.com Now, customers tend to reply to those email notifications, wanting them to go back to whoever sent the report at Company A. Instead, they end up back at our address, notifications@b.com. A simple solution may be to change