OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria Web Server

• Posted by Greg Phillips <i.shootSPAMLESS at REDNECKS.COM> Feb 20, 2000
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Pete Eberlein wrote:

>  Well, someone successfully crashed it... due to a limitation of Euphoria.
>
>  And... who was the genius who pounded their home row keys to make this
>  happen? 
>
>  Maybe I should write some logging routines...
>

'twas me.  A lot of servers fall victim to this incredibly simple 'trick'.
Early versions of Microsoft's Personal Web Server would actually cause boxes to
freeze up with requests for files were made, that had a length of 1000 bytes or
greater.  Apache once had this problem too, I believe.

And, for what it's worth, I crashed my own machine, too.  Turns out Netscape
doesn't like serveral thousand characters in the Location box =P

Regards,
Greg


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