An HTML mangling test case

Posted by dave on Nov 1, 2004 9:30 AM EDT
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Last month Michal Zalewski posted to the Bugtraq security mailing list the results of a small experiment he carried out involving feeding randomly generated HTML pages into some of the Web's most widely used browsers. The results were somewhat alarming. All of the open source browsers Michal tested crashed when faced with this kind of input. Only one browser stood up well against this type of stress test. Which one? A round of applause please for, er, Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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This is an old, misinterpreted story! TxtEdMacs 1 1,163 Nov 1, 2004 1:58 PM

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