A Billion More Laughs: The JavaScript hack that acts like an XML attack

Don is off in Lowell working on a project with our ARX folks so I was working late last night (finishing my daily read of the Internet) and ended up reading Scott Hanselman's discussion of threads ve...
Published Sep 11, 2008
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Sep 11, 2008
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My understanding is that FF does warn you. The comment referenced IE8 beta 2, so it's possible this is something that Microsoft will address before officially releasing IE8.

 

 

I agree, IE8 and Chrome *should* implement that same mechanism - and given that Google implemented its own JavaScript engine, one wonders if they did. I have not verified that it does or does not.

 

 

Anyone want to try it with Chrome and let us know?