Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
Perry E. Metzger
perry at piermont.com
Fri Sep 22 05:43:45 PDT 1995
Jeff Weinstein writes:
> OK, Perry was right, and it was wrong of me to argue with him based
> only on the code that I have personally seen. As we have already
> determined, I have not reviewed every line of code in netscape.
>
> Not that I want to divert attention away from netscape(OK, maybe I
> do :-) ), but does this bug exist in any other common browser?
Probably in Mosaic, though not necessarily in the same place. Its a
case of the same programmers making the same mistakes over and over
again.
I don't believe the Sun Java stuff would suffer from it, although I
fear Java a great deal.
Perry
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