Tag: URI

Magnet URIs, which are a way of downloading torrents without actually downloading a .torrent file, are a fantastic idea, but a bit... long-winded. They're regularly over 200 characters long, making them too long to share with Twitter. Email clients can break them by inserting line breaks, and most annoyingly, very few IM clients make magnet links 'clickable.' Mgnet.me, as you can tell from ...

Just two weeks after Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.0.5, the corporation has pushed out another critical security update. Firefox 2.0.0.6 fixes two vulnerabilities. The problem is that Firefox "did not percent-encode spaces and double-quotes in URIs handed off to external programs." Essentially that means that hackers could create web sites that would launch arbitrary code on your computers when ...