No, { }
are legitimate characters to have an a URL, although it probably should be escaped, so
http://www.isthisahacker.com/{7B643FB915-845C-4A76-A071-677D62157FE07D}.htm
..should technically be:
http://www.isthisahacker.com/%7B7B643FB915-845C-4A76-A071-677D62157FE07D%7D.htm
(where %7B
and %7D
are the URL encoded equivalents to {
and }
)
There's nothing evil about the symbols, nor the {7B643FB915-845C-4A76-A071-677D62157FE07D}
string. As tsilb says, it is a GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) - a standardised way of generating random/unique strings.
It's no different to URL like http://www.isthisahacker.com/4345.htm
1@tslib, I think it's slightly more than 1 in 4 billion - more like 1 in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 – rossmcm – 2011-06-30T10:02:49.683
Yeah, I guess that would be kind of a giveaway, right? Thanks. – lipton – 2009-08-31T00:42:33.717