Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

Yih-Chun Hu yihchun at u.washington.edu
Fri Sep 22 10:04:56 PDT 1995


On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Dietrich J. Kappe wrote:

> Netscape 1.1N on a powermac crashes hard on that url. If anyone wants to try
> it out, I've put up a simple page with the url at
> 

Netscape, Windows (its a school computer) works fine w/ a proxy.
When there is no proxy, Windows dies. EMM dies. Lots of stuff dies.
So use a proxy.

> http://www.redweb.com/experiment/bug.html
> 
> *warning* view the source before you click on strange links!!!

Sometimes you won't expect it, ie for netscape enhancements click
here (or on the Netscape logo).

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