Le jeudi 22 Juillet 2004 15:52, Daniel Taylor a écrit :
Comparing web/http and email/smtp makes no sense whatsoever.
Why not?
Well, we are discussing email forgery problem, because it is so widely common
that it is a real pain in the ... of the whole email system. We are not
discussing web pages forgery problem, and it happens that there are very
uncommon, unless your web or DNS server has been broken into and compromised
(not talking about "phishing" spam that directs people to pages that may look
to be yours, but actually don't come from your server).
The very fact that email/smtp suffers from the forgery disease to this extent,
where web/http does not, proves that the issues are radically different,
their causes are different, their remedies (if needed) will have to be
different, and one does not compare to the other more than a pimple on the
nose compares to a heart attack...
And you cannot compare what you expect to get when you contact a server for
asking a web page that it permanently hosts (web), and email that you receive
from a server that didn't originate the message by itself, but merely acts as
a forwarder (whatever controls it may or may not implement).
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