[MlMt] Showing the URL on hover
Steven M. Bellovin
smb at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Apr 18 14:50:17 EDT 2023
On 18 Apr 2023, at 2:51, Gavan Schneider wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2023, at 16:34, Patrik Fältström via mailmate wrote:
>
>> On 18 Apr 2023, at 4:06, Gavan Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> FWIW I note the URL link for yourself
>>> http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~mhucka hovers red to indicate caution
>>> (why is not obvious to me), and the other URL
>>> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate hovers white to indicate
>>> relative safety.
>>
>> ...because of lack of TLS to the first?
>>
> Thx. A quick test confirms the hypothesis —
> http://… hovers red, ie., unsafe
> https://… hovers white
>
Red can (or at least could) also mean that the actual URL is not the
same as the displayed text.
—Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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