[5874] in bugtraq
Re: Gzip & segmentation faults
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank de Lange)
Sun Dec 28 15:06:04 1997
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 15:46:00 +0100
Reply-To: Frank de Lange <frank@animalhouse.ml.org>
From: Frank de Lange <frank@ANIMALHOUSE.ML.ORG>
X-To: =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?Micha=B3?= Zalewski <lcamtuf@POLBOX.COM>
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> I also noticed strange behaviour of VRML 2.0 plugins with M$IE (maybe
> other browsers?) - they believes that every .gz file I wish to view
> must be a compressed VRML file :).
[...]
That's probably caused by Microsoft MimeOLE, which thinks each and every .gz
file is a vrml world. Your attachments are also marked as 'other/VRML' and
x-world/x-vrml' (causing RFC-compliant MUA's to complain about them:
Sun 03:07 PM] [PARSE] Unexpected characters at end of parameters:
,x-world/x-vrml; name="altered.gz"
[Sun 03:07 PM] [PARSE] Unexpected characters at end of parameters:
,x-world/x-vrml; name="Dos-gpf.gz"
[Sun 03:07 PM] [PARSE] Unexpected characters at end of parameters:
,x-world/x-vrml; name="Linux.gz"
That's what you'll get by using `standard-related' software...
BTW, how I know you're using MimeOLE? Simple:
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3
Cheers//Frank
