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Re: Attachments are banned from the XSL-List
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- Subject: Re: Attachments are banned from the XSL-List
- From: XSL-List Owner <xsl-list-owner at mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 23:16:05 -0400 (EST)
- References: <022e01bfbae6$11bb5f80$d072fea9@bosak>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Mark,
At 10 May 2000 20:13 -0500, Mark Volkmann wrote:
> Wouldn't it be possible to check whether email attachments were well-formed
> XML text files? That way we could allow XML and XSLT attachments. I've never
> written code to process email attachments so perhaps this is more work than
> I realize.
Firstly, our Majordomo setup is provided by our ISP, so there's not
much that we can do except use what their version of Majordomo
supports.
Secondly, well-formed XML is likely to become the format in which
active content -- including maliciously active content -- is sent over
the wire. Even today, I could attach an XSL stylesheet containing an
infinite loop that would cause the original IE5 XSL processor (and
possibly other processors) to fail with a stack overflow.
Regards,
Tony Graham
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