Traps for the unwary browser

Actually, other people are much better than me at this game.
See Andrew Bulhak's handbook for one source for creative use of HTML.

This page is more for people of a technical bent.

Trap 1: The chargen port

This is the trap. It will fill your swap area as fast as the Net can carry it.
This trap is faster, since it gets its output from your own machine, but doesn't work on all hosts.

Trap 2: The mailserver URL

You might not have implemented this, but here is how I can get you to send me an E-mail, the contents of which you don't know. Think of the US President....

If you think this requires the mailserver URL, you might want to think again. Some browsers DO fall for it!
Another version of the same basic idea is here.


Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Last modified: Fri Aug 9 13:31:37 1996