Mangle the format?

[David Faure]

On Friday 29 October 2004 12:47, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> The recent HTML mangeling tests
> that turned up bugs in basically all webbrowser's html parsing
> gave me an idea.
> 
> What if we make a mangeling script to test the Kolab resistance
> against bad kolab formats?
> 
> We could the following mangleme port to python
> as a basis for thus a script:
> http://felinemenace.org/~nd/htmler.py
> 
> Anybody feels like writing one?

XML isn't like HTML, it's easy to parse safely. And there's no rendering involved.
I don't think there's much point in trying broken XML on parsers.
If you want to send malicious emails that crash people's mailers, you'd have more
chances with HTML-emails IMHO :)

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