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Bug 139804 - info:/ URL opens infinite(?) number of windows
info:/ URL opens infinite(?) number of windows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: General
2.5.x
Other All
: High critical
: ---
Assigned To: Shaun McCance
Yelp maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-04-12 15:27 UTC by Jerome Haltom
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 2.6.next
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description Jerome Haltom 2004-04-12 15:27:29 UTC 
Run "yelp info:/".

This URL is also registered in other Gnome programs. This can be a pretty
dangerous DOS.

Since info:/ support is gone from 2.6, removing info:/ and man:/ URL support
totally would probably be wise?
Comment 1 Shaun McCance 2004-04-12 19:59:08 UTC 
Yeah, I was informed of this the other day on IRC.  The problem is that if Yelp
encounters a URI it can't handle, it calls gnome_url_show on it.  But Yelp is
still registered as the info: and man: handler, so gnome_url_show calls Yelp,
which calls gnome_url_show, etc.  I'm bumping the priority up on this.  We
really need to fix this for 2.6.1.
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2004-05-05 14:02:51 UTC 
Hrm, seems to work fine here with 2.6.0? Or am I doing the wrong thing?
Comment 3 Jerome Haltom 2004-05-05 15:05:49 UTC 
This appears to be fixed for me with 2.6.1 but I can't find a mention in teh
changelog. Am I blind? Confirm. :)
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2004-06-06 16:32:10 UTC 
If it works for both of us :) I'm closing; must have been fixed at some point.