Resolving trailing dot issue in website url

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Resolving trailing dot issue in website url #22

Closed parulagg27 closed 5 years ago

parulagg27 commented 5 years ago

A community member asks anonymously:

" How to resolve the trailling dot issue on website url, and what will be the best technique or method to check that your website is vulnerable or not ."

saranshkataria commented 5 years ago

Need more context on this. Trailing dots are by default a unix style convention and more can be read about it here: http://www.dns-sd.org/trailingdotsindomainnames.html Need more context about how this is a vulnerability

parulagg27 commented 5 years ago

Also, if you are interested in exploring more about web security and vulnerabilities, do checkout the tutorials here: https://www.hacker101.com/ Closing this issue now!