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Re: Does your IE6 crash with these "URLs"?

From: Troy <th () zeno com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:06:30 -0700

On 17 Jul 2003 17:57:16 +0200, Martin <nakal () web de> wrote:

Hi,

I have a question. I would like to know, if you can also crash 
IE6, when typing the following "URL":

ftp*://?


Neat. Windows 2000, IE build 6.0.2800.1106 reproduces this. I *just*
went to Windows Update. All patches are installed. The only things left
to install at WU are the .NET framework, DX9, and Media Player 9.

I tried the sample code and made a simpler, non-Java version using a
redirect.

<HTML><HEAD>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=ftp://ftp*://?";>
</BODY></HTML>

Fortunately, OE isn't stupid enough to launch the URL automatically if I
open an HTML message with that source, but I wonder about other
HTML-capable news readers.

-- 
Troy

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