IE, again..

["Leo R. Lundgren" <leo () finalresort org>]

y0,

well, im not all that much into software engineering atm, so this is pretty
brief.

anyhow, i played with IE a bit, and if i in the url-field give it as many
'€'´s as possible, along with a valid protocol, it crashes with an acces
violation. http://€€€€<many €´s...> or telnet://€€€€<many €´s...> for
example.

when i do this, and look in the status bar, it says its searching for 'â,¬'.
i dunno but a thought that arises is that it craches cuz of the expanding in
this (one € becoming those three chars, seemingly after any checks(?), three
times bigger than expected and they dont have checks for that?)

(just tested making a document with a link to this in it)

it seems that if you make a plain .html document with a link to http://€ and
load it (in this case locally), and click the link, nothing happens except
that it searches for a site named "those three chars". if i expand the link
to contain MANY (more than the limit of the urlfield) €´s, nothing happens
when i try to activate the link. if i on the other side make the link just
as long as would fit in the urlfield, ie tries to goto it and crashes :)
havent bothered trying anything than those three combinations.

well, pretty badly reported but anyhow, if you find it interesting, play
with it. as i said i havent really, didnt even check the registers et al..

this version of IE is 5.00.2314.1003, running on an NT4wks with sp5.

Regards,

  Leo R. Lundgren
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  E-mail: leo () finalresort org