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Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp)
From: "John Mitchell" <jmitchell () american-trouser com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:37:11 -0500
I have noticed this same behavior. Guess what. MS internet explorer work wonderful on these pages. Care to guess what the reasoning is behind that? It is this kind of stuff that gets everybody in a "dither" about their business practices. I will stop short before this becomes a rant. Nevertheless, I feel sure that it is an "undocumented feature" of the web site. John Roger Marquis wrote:
Has anyone attempted to browse: http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp using Netscape Navigator and noticed what seems to be an HTML denial of service? I've tested this page with Javascript on and off, Java on and off, cookies on and off, under FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris and the behavior is consistent: * Navigator freezes for several seconds * CPU utilization climbs briefly to near 100% * memory usage climbs by 11MB * the 11MB or memory are not released even after leaving the page and clearing disk and RAM caches. The page <HEAD> shows two possible sources for this extremely unusual browser behavior: <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="PICS-Label" CONTENT='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l comment "RSACi North America Server" by "inet () microsoft com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))'> <META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN-US"> <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="/NTServer/global/Netscape.css"> <SCRIPT SRC="/ntserver/inc/jscripts.js" LANGUAGE="javascript"> </SCRIPT></HEAD> Is there a tool (other than tcpdump) which can examine this "Netscape.css" script? -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/
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- HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp) Roger Marquis (May 17)
- Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp) Alexander Schreiber (May 18)
- Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp) Thomas (May 18)
- Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp) John Mitchell (May 18)
- Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp) Wilson Roberto Afonso (May 19)
- Re: HTML DOS? (http://microsoft.com/NTServer/all/Downloads.asp) John Lines (May 19)