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res:// weirdness

From: Markku-Juhani Saarinen <mjos () CC JYU FI>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 02:35:16 +0300

Hi,

  I don't know whether this is new or not, but the following URL seems
  to totally blow up IE 5, opening new windows until system
  resources are exhausted. This applies at least to NT 4 boxes with
  IE 5.5.

    res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.securityfocus.com/

  I found this basically while reading through SHDOCLC.DLL.

  If nothing special happens, try entering that url for the second time.
  Apparently cache is somehow involved with this thing.

- mj

Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen <mjos () jyu fi>  University of Jyväskylä, Finland

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res:// weirdness Markku-Juhani Saarinen (Aug 15)
- Re: res:// weirdness Bluefish (P.Magnusson) (Aug 16)
  - Re: res:// weirdness Alex Schuetz (Aug 17)
- Re: res:// weirdness Bill Weiss (Aug 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: res:// weirdness Markku-Juhani Saarinen (Aug 16)