full-disclosure - Does your IE6 crash with these "URLs"?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0307171220480.29739-100000@mail.btv.ampeisch.com>
From: mike at ampeisch.com (Michael Starr)
Subject: Does your IE6 crash with these "URLs"?

Martin;

It seems to crash my browser as well.  Running IE6, fairly new install.

Ciao!

On 17 Jul 2003, Martin tickled us all to no end by saying:

> Date: 17 Jul 2003 17:57:16 +0200
> From: Martin <nakal@....de>
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Does your IE6 crash with these "URLs"?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question. I would like to know, if you can also crash 
> IE6, when typing the following "URL":
> 
> ftp*://?
> 
> I have also tried from HTML like this:
> 
> <html>
> <body>
> <DEFANGED_script language="JavaScript">
> window.open("ftp://ftp*://?");
> </DEFANGED_script>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> I could crash IE about a year ago with the first "URL" above 
> and I've sent already various crash reports to Microsoft a 
> long time ago. There was no reaction.
> 
> That's why I just want to ask if someone can check this for me. 
> Maybe only my 3 PCs are weird.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> 
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