PowerPoint Presentation

Houston

URIs – An Overview

• Generic

– http://, ftp://, telnet://, etc.

• What else is registered?

– aim://, firefoxurl://, picasa://, itms://, etc.

URIs – Interaction With Browsers

• Developers create URI hooks in the

registry for their applications

• Once registered they can be accessed

and interacted with through the browser

• XSS can play too!

URI Discovery – Where and

What?

• RFC 4395 defines an IANA-maintained

registry of URI Schemes

• W3C maintains *retired* schemes…