Holy Firefox Sqlite!!!

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Anton Rolls <anton at wilddsl.net.au> wrote:

> Anton Rolls wrote:
> > Anton Rolls wrote:
> >> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >>> Anyone notice that in your:
> >>>
> >>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/vdt4357z.default
> >>>
> >>> Directory there is a file(s) that start with:
> >>>
> >>> urlclassifier3.sqlite   (various names)
> >>>
> >>> Some of these files are huge (like 53mb)
> >>>
> >>> I deleted them all on a whim the other day and within a day the above
> file
> >>> came back at   53mb.
> >>>
> >>> I really don't think these things are necessary....  i.e.  why in heck
> are
> >>> they so big and what are they doing with them?
> >>>
> >>> Anyone have a clue?
> >> I have a file, only 5MB
> >>
> >>      5519360  2008-06-23 23:44  urlclassifier2.sqlite
> >>
> >> Looking inside, I see some urls and lots of zero bytes.
> >> Using gzip -9, the file compresses down to 26% of of
> >> its full size.
> >
> > It appears to be full of encrypted urls using an
> > expired protocol, uggc://.
> >
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol/
>
> and it's a very weak encryption - I would say useless.
>
> http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol-01.txt
>
> I'm surprised it was adopted for mozilla firefox.
> I would have thought they would know better than that.
>
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Did anybody notice the Date on the uggc memo? I think this is a joke gone
too far :)

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Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
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