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1995-09-22 - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

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From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Message Hash: 4945c2910ebeb4fa59aac38c6102b94c30b2ec32f1a7ad1373de28707bbcdf2e
Message ID: <9509220814.AA06967@cs.umass.edu>
Reply To: <199509220715.DAA27920@clark.net>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 08:14:47 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 01:14:47 PDT

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From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 01:14:47 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
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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>

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