<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Anton Rolls <<a href="mailto:anton@wilddsl.net.au">anton@wilddsl.net.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">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://. > > <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol/" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol/</a> </div>and it's a very weak encryption - I would say useless. <a href="http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol-01.txt" target="_blank">http://ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/drafts/draft-farah-uggc-protocol-01.txt</a> I'm surprised it was adopted for mozilla firefox. I would have thought they would know better than that. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> Did anybody notice the Date on the uggc memo? I think this is a joke gone too far :) -- Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)