Browser Form Security
May 22nd, 2003 by HenJust noticed a ScreenSavers bit on fraudulent Paypal spam to make people send their credit card, ATM pin etc to a spammer.
It would be very nice if when I put the mouse on top of a Form, if it shows the site that the Form is going to. I’d expect to see something like:
Submit: http://www.example.com/submit_spam?fooaweriwed=wew1121
Does anyone know of a browser that does this?
May 22nd, 2003 at 8:50 am
You can write a bookmarklet (a tiny javascript) which can retrieve a form element and show you the action url. Unfortunately it may not help much because there are a lot of forms submited from javascript code (i.e. after prevalidation).
June 19th, 2003 at 2:24 am
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209918
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=form+security&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=