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Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0
From: paulle () MICROSOFT COM (Paul Leach)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:24:34 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: Joe [mailto:joe () BLARG NET] Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 2:32 PM On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Paul Leach wrote: <RANT> Oh give me a break.
OK. I was not paying close enough attention to this case: --------------cut here------------------------- <HTML> <title>It shut down your IE 4.0</title> <OBJECT CLASSID=#></OBJECT> </HTML> --------------and here------------------------ As far as I can tell with my limited knowlege of HTML, it's plain old invalid input and should have been detected. If that's what provoked your rant, that part of it was justified. Now, give me a break -- web pages in general are Turing complete, and it is not possible to validate, for all such pages, that they don't recurse infinitely, even though it is possible in many special cases. When they do recurse past the maximum stack depth, IE flashes the screen and reappears, having lost knowledge of the last pages you've visited, in every case I've seen personally or had reported. Paul
Current thread:
- Network Associates Inc. Advisory (OpenBSD), (continued)
- Network Associates Inc. Advisory (OpenBSD) Security Research Labs (Aug 10)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Alan Cox (Aug 07)
- Description of the Eudora Security Hole Aleph One (Aug 07)
- resend Steve Bellovin (Aug 06)
- Re: resend Casper Dik (Aug 07)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Paul Leach (Aug 04)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Joe (Aug 05)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Paul Leach (Aug 06)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Roger Espel Llima (Aug 06)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Paul Leach (Aug 06)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Paul Leach (Aug 06)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Paul Leach (Aug 06)
- Re: Object tag crashes Internet Explorer 4.0 Florian Weimer (Aug 08)