Comment 5 for bug 514484

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Peter Clifton (pcjc2) wrote :

Off-topic, I know, but does anyone know if the DNS registries reject stuff like this?

https://www.pay​pal.com
There is a zero-width space character inbetween pay and pal

Epiphany doesn't appear to strip it, you just get a "not found" error:

Problem occurred while loading the URL http://https//www.pay%E2%80%8Bpal.com
Cannot resolve hostname

Scary times ahead if this kind of encoding can get through into the DNS servers!!