Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
Futplex
futplex at pseudonym.com
Fri Sep 22 01:14:47 PDT 1995
On the bright side, mailto: hyperlinks containing extra-long domain names
seem to be handled comparatively safely in both Netscape and Mosaic.
(Perhaps they just have longer buffers ? ;)
Neither Netscape nor Mosaic crashes on a mailto:// of the same length as a
ftp:// or http:// that _would_ crash them. Netscape appears to do some sort
of truncation at some point (silently); Mosaic gives you a standard "server
is not accessible or is refusing to serve the document" warning page.
(Netscape 1.1N, Mosaic 2.4, SunOS 4.1.2)
-Futplex <futplex at pseudonym.com>
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