Anil Gangolli

rel attribute on links is multivalued

I hope the various pieces of software now dealing with the rel attribute in links (e.g., rel="tag" and rel="nofollow") are cognizant of the fact that the rel attribute is multi-valued in the sense that multiple relationships can be specified within the single value in space-separated form. I could legitimately, for example, have a link with
rel="tag nofollow"

Posted at 11:59PM Feb 09, 2005 in dev  |  Permalink

Wikipedia Link Roller Plugin

I’ve added a Wikipedia Search Link Plugin to the set of experimental Roller plugins available on the wiki .

Note: If you installed the previous version and decide you want the new Wikipedia plugin as well, please re-read the revised installation instructions. There is a new configuration line in the web.xml for the Wikipedia plugin, and the configuration line for the Google plugin line changed to accomodate a change in the package name. Everything else is the same.

UPDATE 2/10/05: There was a minor bug fixed in the topic tag plugin to allow you to use spaces in the tag text. These get URL-encoded in the url portion of the tag, but remain as spaces in the visible text. I believe that’s the correct behavior.

Technorati tags: Roller blogware blogging java technorati

Posted at 10:39PM Feb 09, 2005 in dev  |  Permalink

UTF-8 considered harmful

Thane’s blog calls attention to this internationalized URL attack that’s practically custom-made for phishing.

Eek! Should have stuck to IA5String!

Related (via Google): homograph attack

Technorati topics: i18n UTF-8 SSL security X.509 PKI

Posted at 07:57PM Feb 09, 2005 in tech  |  Permalink