[sdnog] hXXp URLs

[Mujahid Abdellatif]

So basically what i understood is there is no (hXXp) as a network 
traffic, but its used in discussion referring to the http protocols. am 
i right?


On 8/31/2016 11:16 AM, Philip Paeps wrote:
> On 2016-08-31 08:34:04 (+0200), Mujahid Abdellatif 
> <mujahidjunior at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> im wondering what is (hXXp), i've tried googling it but didn't find a
>> good information about it. so any info would be much appreciated.
>
> It's common practice in the security community to obfuscate 'http' as
> 'hxxp' in discussions of malware, etc.  The rationale is to prevent
> stupid people (or stupid software) from carelessly following links.
>
> [I'm a little surprised that nobody has thought to write an RFC about
> the practice and get the URI scheme registered by IANA.]
>
> Philip
>