There is a weird denial of service issue with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox when they attempt to render html files with long titles.
3357dc5d3a06a4e2bac7976e80e693c9There is an issue with these browser rendering html's
with long titles.
Only Tested on:
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Internet Explorer(SP2): 6.0.2900.2180
Mozilla firefox: 1.0
Not affected:
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Mozilla Browser
Have a look at,
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<html>
<head> <title> ....(put)3.5 MB OF data.......
</html>
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For IE beyond 1 Mb will just do fine. On execution,
Mozilla Firefox starts filling up all the available
system memory with 100% CPU use.
Internet explorer renders 100% CPU use, but no system
instability. (O;
I've tested it on Windows XP SP2.
Both Firefox & IE supports decompression method 'gzip'
ie. an extended request header named
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING like
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip,deflate
By this way, the file can be kept around few kilobytes
in the server and delivered easily. I wonder, why
such... simple issue went un-noticed to everyone for
years...
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