what did the code look like? <pre><%=CrLf%></pre> ?
Sam Thompson ---------------------------------------------- 2cs Communications Ltd http://www.2cs.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 01473 622263 F: 01473 622515 ----------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2002 11:46 PM Subject: IIS bug with <pre> CRLF</pre> or am I carazy???? > Here is a weird story/IIs bug. For 4 days production server was down, every > thing look normal, no error on the log but the sites were behaving like > under an external attack. It toke to serve a asp page up to 5 minutes and if > we did not shut down the IIS after few hours the server become unaccessible > and require power hard boot. We look every where found nothing (I was sure > it is a virus or Trojan). By try and error we identified one site that > cause the problem (there are more than 30 sites there). > > Make the long story short we found a asp file with <pre></pre> with 480 > CRLF in between. Don't ask me why the html programmer did it, I do not care, > but if it is true it means that a simple html code can take down a server > (even a user on a forum / form that allow to post text with html tags) > > Can some one test it? For some internal problems we will not have access to > test server till Tuesday. And I am not daring to try it on production one > more time. > > I am not even sure it is the problem. All we know is that the site with this > asp file was causing the problem and I can not take them down one more time. > > > > thank > > Beny > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
