On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:16:32 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> Hello:
> Today I received an HTML attachment in a spam message that
> contained among other garbage the following line:
> img src="cid:52430,[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; width="241" height="91"
> When I clicked on the attachment my machine got hung up in an
> endless "verifying images" loop. I had to do a cold reboot to
> get out of it.
> What is this "cid" tag, and why is it used, and why does it cause
> Arachne to go haywire? Also what kind of image source address is
> this that looks most strangely as though it were an email address,
> except that there could be no such domain name as "logomail1.gif" ?
> BTW, You can't always blame the "verifying images" loop on
> JavaScript. This HTML attachment contained no JavaScript.
> I wish there were some way to fix this "verifying images" loop.
I'm on digest so I didn't get your X-Mailer line.
Which version of Arachne were you using when this happened?
I thought we had the "CID bug" fixed as-of seceral versions ago.
(perhaps I was wrong) :(
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