[Xitami] devices problem

[Francis Turner]

Francis Turner wrote:

> Jason Ozin at Technica Solutions wrote:
>
>> Ewen says:
>>
>> > Can anyone else reproduce this issue on another version of Windows?
>>
>> I would remind you that I can produce a similar effect see our previous
>> thread:
>> RE: [Xitami] DoS Bug still in v2.4d9 (W2K service)
>>
>
> I have now just reproduced Jason's bug. http://localhost/lpt1 kills 
> xitami if a printer is installed on win2k
>
> http://localhost/aux gives 403 as one might expect. However the lpt1 
> problem only seems to apply to localhost. In otherwords a remote 
> machine doing http://myhost/lpt1 gets the expected 403
>
> Francis
>
there is obviously some kind of timing thing here because today its not 
working even though I have the printer window open and hitting refresh 
occasionally!

Gaah!

FWIW tihis is win2k Sp2 (german) using either mozilla 0.9.7 or IE 5.5

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