Re: Server crashes when user saves or views html source

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = It seems that doing a view source on the SearchResults.tpl in the classifieds demo, will make webstar crash, but only if using netscape version prior to 4.5, wierd!If deleting the [foundItems][/foundItems] context, the problem dissolves, but so does the functionalityBut if i change the formular page, so that it aint doing the search, but only sending th evariables to the searchresults.tpl, and includes a [search db=classifieds.db&[formvariables][name]=[value]&[/formvariables]] context in that, it does the job, and the webserver no longer crashes.My conclusion is that there must be a bug, when using the command=search/Martin>We have built a site using the examples that come with Wbecatalog as a >reference. >Everything works fine except for one thing: If a user performs a search and >then tries to either save or view the HTML source of the results-page, the >webserver crashes. This happens with both webten and Webstar. Whoops! It >also works with Appleshare IP 6.1; I just tried! ;-) > >I tried doing the same thing with the demo-site that installs with >Webcatalog; lo and behold! I can crash that too. The classified add site >that is included works exactly like this. Of course, this is what we used >as the basis for our search, so that is perhaps not too surprising. > >Can anyone shed light on this behaviour? Our ISP is getting sort of testy >because the kind of people who tend to look at source are also the kind who >tend to be up late. And he just plum hates to have to go in and restart his >servers at 2 A.M. :-)) > >Regards >Lars Bertelsen > >Lars Bertelsen >Produkt Manager >Attention Software Aps >(+45) 33251070 >http://www.attention.dk/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Server crashes when user saves or views html source (Martin Gertz Bech 1998)
  2. Server crashes when user saves or views html source (Lars Bertelsen 1998)
It seems that doing a view source on the SearchResults.tpl in the classifieds demo, will make webstar crash, but only if using netscape version prior to 4.5, wierd!If deleting the [founditems][/foundItems] context, the problem dissolves, but so does the functionalityBut if i change the formular page, so that it aint doing the search, but only sending th evariables to the searchresults.tpl, and includes a [search db=classifieds.db&[formvariables][name]=[value]&[/formvariables]] context in that, it does the job, and the webserver no longer crashes.My conclusion is that there must be a bug, when using the command=search/Martin>We have built a site using the examples that come with Wbecatalog as a >reference. >Everything works fine except for one thing: If a user performs a search and >then tries to either save or view the HTML source of the results-page, the >webserver crashes. This happens with both webten and Webstar. Whoops! It >also works with Appleshare IP 6.1; I just tried! ;-) > >I tried doing the same thing with the demo-site that installs with >Webcatalog; lo and behold! I can crash that too. The classified add site >that is included works exactly like this. Of course, this is what we used >as the basis for our search, so that is perhaps not too surprising. > >Can anyone shed light on this behaviour? Our ISP is getting sort of testy >because the kind of people who tend to look at source are also the kind who >tend to be up late. And he just plum hates to have to go in and restart his >servers at 2 A.M. :-)) > >Regards >Lars Bertelsen > >Lars Bertelsen >Produkt Manager >Attention Software Aps >(+45) 33251070 >http://www.attention.dk/ Martin Gertz Bech

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