[39853] in Cypherpunks
Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Fri Sep 22 04:15:59 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:14:38 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199509220715.DAA27920@clark.net> from "Ray Cromwell" at Sep 22, 95 03:15:39 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
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@pseudonym.com>
