top | item 36846919 (no title) jonas-w | 2 years ago HN automatically converts these urls to punycode, maybe this is a bug and it automatically converts everything to punycode even though it doesn't make sense? discuss order hn newest yreg|2 years ago It's unrelated to HN. Copy pasting 𝕏.com into the address bar still leads to x.comrelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack mkl|2 years ago I already mentioned that, and it's not what they mean. Hover your mouse over a https://xn--971h.com link in a comment on HN and notice that it's pointing to https://x.com. This does seem to be an HN thing; see here: https://jsfiddle.net/rtfhejdy/ mkl|2 years ago I think so. Then I'm not right about the punycode encoding of 𝕏.com - it's that it isn't even needed. I've emailed dang about it.
yreg|2 years ago It's unrelated to HN. Copy pasting 𝕏.com into the address bar still leads to x.comrelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack mkl|2 years ago I already mentioned that, and it's not what they mean. Hover your mouse over a https://xn--971h.com link in a comment on HN and notice that it's pointing to https://x.com. This does seem to be an HN thing; see here: https://jsfiddle.net/rtfhejdy/
mkl|2 years ago I already mentioned that, and it's not what they mean. Hover your mouse over a https://xn--971h.com link in a comment on HN and notice that it's pointing to https://x.com. This does seem to be an HN thing; see here: https://jsfiddle.net/rtfhejdy/
mkl|2 years ago I think so. Then I'm not right about the punycode encoding of 𝕏.com - it's that it isn't even needed. I've emailed dang about it.
yreg|2 years ago
related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
mkl|2 years ago
mkl|2 years ago