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The Tangled Web
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The Tangled Web

by Michal Zalewski
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
10h 18m
English
No Starch Press
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Hyperlinking and Content Inclusion

One of the most important and security-relevant features of HTML is, predictably, the ability to link to and embed external content. HTTP-level features such as Location and Refresh aside, this can be accomplished in a couple of straightforward ways.

Plain Links

The following markup demonstrates the most familiar and most basic method for referencing external content from within a document:

<a href="http://www.example.com/">Click me!</a>

This hyperlink may point to any of the browser-recognized schemes, including pseudo-URLs (data:, javascript:, and so on) and protocols handled by external applications (such as mailto:). Clicking on the text (or any HTML elements) nested inside such a <a href=...> block will typically ...

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