Re: Buffer overflow bug in Validator?

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Fri, Jun 29 2001

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    Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:19:04 +0900
    To: "Christian Wolfgang Hujer" <christian@hujer.com>, <www-validator@w3.org>
    From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
    Subject: Re: Buffer overflow bug in Validator?
    
    At 13:05 01/06/29 +0200, Christian Wolfgang Hujer wrote:
    >Hello dear W3 Validator,
    >
    >I think I have found a bug in the validator or perhaps the underlaying
    >software.
    >I got a reproducable 500 internal server error from the validator when
    >validating the result one of my perl scripts produced. It contained a long
    >long single line (physical ASCII/UTF-8 line) with more than 240000
    >characters resp. bytes (without those unneccessary SP, CR or LF).
    
    Interesting. I'll have a look at it if it turns out that
    it's an i18n-related problem. Otherwise, I suggest that
    Terje or Gerald have  a look at it.
    
    
    >(Of course
    >this is not a usual html page delivered to the end user, it's just for
    >administration of an encyclopedia).
    >If you want to, I can send you the generated html. It is not available
    >online anymore because I wanted to use the validator and therefore changed
    >my perl script to include line breaks.
    >
    >Second, a question: Will there be icons for XHTML 1.1 and XHTML Basic?
    
    We have requested them. We hope that we can get them soon.
    
    Regards,   Martin.