View-source URI scheme: Difference between revisions

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The '''view-source''' protocol is a [[URI scheme]] is used inby [[HTML]]some browsers to createconstruct links[[Uniform whichResource displayLocator|URLs]] thethat sourcerefer code ofto a websource page (usuallydisplay infor a popupgiven window)resource.

For example, this [[Uniform Resource Locator|URL]] shows the source of the Wikipedia home page:

'''<nowiki>view-source:http://www.wikipediaexmaple.orgcom/</nowiki>'''

== Browser Support ==

[[Mozilla Firefox]] and [[Internet Explorer]] both supported the view-source protocolscheme, but support was dropped from Internet Explorer in [[Windows XP]] SP2 due to security problems.<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767742.aspx

|title=view-source Protocol

|publisher=[[Microsoft Developer Network|MSDN]]

|accessdate=2009-02-25

}}</ref> Firefox also suffered a similar security issue (by combining the view-source: and javascript: protocolsURIs<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://www.milw0rm.com/id.php?id=1007

|title=Mozilla Firefox view-source:javascript url Code Execution Exploit

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|date=2005-11-30

|accessdate=2009-02-25

}}</ref> after being fixed. In 2009 a new discovered bug was fixed in [[Mozilla Firefox 3|Firefox 3.0.9]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-17.html|title=MFSA 2009-17: Same-origin violations when Adobe Flash loaded via view-source: scheme|last=Fleischer|first=Gregory|date=April 21, 2009|publisher=[[Mozilla]]|accessdate=2009-04-22}}</ref>

* Mozilla Firefox - supported

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== References ==

<references/>

==External links==

* [http://jedisthlm.com/2005/01/30/view-source-protocol/ View Source Protocol]

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[[Category:Internet protocols]]

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