Mozilla Implements TLD Whitelist for Firefox in Response to IDN Homogr aphs Spoofing

Thu Jul 28 14:15:39 UTC 2005

* Phillip Vandry:

> Does anyone else think that it's not the job of a web browser to do
> this? The web browser shouldn't even know about IDN details. The
> system's resolver library should convert non ASCII labels to the
> Punycode representation when sending querries, and convert back
> after receiving responses!
>
> Otherwise how can all my applications support IDN?

Because we currently have IDNA, and "A" stands for "applications".