Curly braces in a URL

Posted by lipton on Super User See other posts from Super User or by lipton
Published on 2009-08-31T00:39:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 6:30 UTC
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Often I have came across URLS like the following:

http://www.isthisahacker.com/{7B643FB915-845C-4A76-A071-677D62157FE07D}.htm

Do the curly braces in the URL above indicate some kind of attempt to access the registry, or is that a legitimate URL? It looks kind of suspicious to me.

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