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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