WYCIWYG

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WYCIWYG is one of web browsers of the Mozilla family of an abbreviation used URI schemas of W has Y ou C ache I s W has Y ou G et ( "What do you zwischenspeicherst is what you get" ). This means that a link is preferably loaded from the cache instead of the web server.

However, this abbreviation, formed according to the WYSIWYG scheme, has no semantic relationship with it.

In the address bar of a web browser based on Gecko or Mozilla, the schema name can be displayed as wyciwyg: // during a Java / JavaScript error, mid-script abort, when displaying the iframe source code, etc. Ä. to be viewed as. Most of the time a link of the schema wyciwyg: // does not work because of the missing cache age information.

Unauthorized access to wyciwyg: // documents has been possible since Firefox version 2.0.0.5. not possible anymore.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-24 (English)