Netscape 4.x will crash when given a content-type of "internal/parser". Earlier versions seem unaffected. Tested versions are 4.05 and 4.5b1. Under Win95 it simply hangs and needs a three finger salute to kill it. It dies with a bus fault under Linux. To test it, try http://www.jtan.com/~jim/netscape-crash.cgi , which contains #!/bin/sh echo Content-type: internal/parser echo echo If you can see this, your browser is OK! It may be possible to do worse than crash a browser. If this data is going to the same place that parsed pages go, I would imagine that buffer overflows are present. I submitted a bug report to Netscape. -jim
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