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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx/MSIE denial-of-service
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Wayne Buttles |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx/MSIE denial-of-service |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:40:03 -0500 (EST) |
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> > though viewing a file of infinite length. This has caused a modem
> > connection to drop using MSIE, and slowed a Linux system using lynx to a
> > crawl due to exhaustion of memory. Both processes were aborted before any
> > further damage was caused.
>
> What is a file of 'infinite length'?
ln -s /dev/zero ~/www/index.html
Hopefully no one is running -traverse -crawl unattended on a student web
server ;-)
Wayne
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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx/MSIE denial-of-service, Klaus Weide, 1997/03/11