Re: VULN-DEV Digest - 8 Feb 2000 to 9 Feb 2000 (#2000-29)

[Yugoslavia () CANADA COM (PCbob - Slobodan miskoviC)]

Devil Man wrote:
> > Put 37 concatenated "its:" strings as a target url and IE4 crashes
> > when trying to handle that url.. No I don't know if you wanted
> > to know this.
> >
> > <a
> href="its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:its:.">do
> > not click me</a>
>
> This does not effect UNIX and or LINUX version of netscape tested on Netscape
> verisons 4.04, 4.5, 4.7.

Of course it will not crash any browser other than M$ IE, 'cause no
other browser uses ``its:'' for anything. I tried ``about:about:...''
(probably much more than 50 `about:'s, just used copy/paste :) under
communicator 4.61 and nothing happened (excet he displayed the page with
realy long horizontal scrool bar)

best regards
Slobodan