Re: IE 5.x (5.50.4522.1800 SP1) Crash at gopher://:

[Sven van ´t Veer <sven () vip br>]

when typing shell://: in netscape, it warns that shell is not a 
registered protocol and crashes when clicking OK.

Bo Stark wrote:

> At 11:42 2001-05-16 +0100, you wrote:
>
> > Now, the wierd thing is this. I've managed to make this happen a few 
> > times,
> > but it seems slightly random. Wonder if anyone else can reproduce this:
> >
> > 1. type shell://: hit return. Normal extra window appears
> > 2. type shell://:; hit return. TWO extra windows appear
> > 3. type shell://:;; hit return. 2 or 3 extra windows appear
> > 4. type shell://: hit return. Explorer comes back with an exception 
> > error:
> >
> > The Exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the
> > application at location 0x76c82587
>
>
> "shell://:;" crashed both ie and explorer.exe on one machine.
> It didn't work on two other with SP2, so I guess SP2 will fix it.
>
> However, "gopher://:"; still makes them crash ie.