There is a weird denial of service issue with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox when they attempt to render html files with long titles.
467ede60a3da75e8f2ac6f25e17f8df7f77c680e4ec8c35364740aab6868374eThere 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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