[JDEV] Funky crash today

Justin Karneges justin-jdev at affinix.com
Tue Aug 6 22:16:01 CDT 2002


Me again..

Hmm, I just sent that packet to Julian and as far as I can tell it didn't 
cause him any trouble.  What I did notice though, is that I got disconnected 
from the server on account of bad XML :)  Great!

Anyway, it is likely not Jarl then, otherwise Adam would have been 
disconnected, eh?  Probably some component in the middle has the prob.

-Justin

On Tuesday 06 August 2002 18:55, Robert Norris wrote:
> > Can CDATA elements be nested in that way as still comply ?
>
> We weren't trying to nest CDATA elements, but were simply discussing
> their use.
>
> > My guess is that it originated with Jarl, I don't think that the
> > intermediating servers would affect the body element.
>
> You're probably right. It was possibly mis-encoded by Jarl before it was
> sent. It does surprise me somewhat that it didn't affect anything on the
> way, though - I would've thought that some XML parsers would break on
> the un-encoded > character.
>
> And in that case, since all the code in between is using Expat in some
> way, it surprises me the Gabber crashed.
>
> *shrug*
>
> Rob.
>
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