Re: Potential overflow in Internet Explorer

[Mike Duncan <duncan () RANDOMTASK NET>]

I have tried this on my ...
 * Dell 600MHz/128MB RAM
 * Win2K Prof. Version 5.0 (build 2195) + SP1
 * Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 Cipher 128-bit
... and got no special result. (Just a 404)

One note though: At work, we have found that the maximum
amount of data that can be inserted into the IE5.5 Address Bar and sent is
~1068 Bytes. We found this out because we were trying to build pages
from a database and ended up getting only 3/4 of the pages.




On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Costa, Andrew wrote:

> I am running 2K Prof. running IE 5.50.4134.0600, and this is what I found:
>
> I went into Textpad, and pasted 24949 "A"s and appended that to
> www.yahoo.com[
>
> I got page cannot be found. I then took all the "A"s in the address bar, and
> cut them out. I pasted them into Textpad, and it pasted in 2012 characters.
> Apparently IE is doing something to reduce the chars.
>
> Andrew
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