Re: lynx-dev 2.8.2rel.1 crash

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Klaus Weide wrote:

> There is something else bogus in the use of this function.  In three
> places it is called as MakeNewMapValue(value,"USEMAP").  Apparently we
> want to output some "verbose" information on the USEMAP attribute
> value, but MakeNewMapValue will instead try to use information from
> the SRC attribute value.  (a) It might make more sense to show
> information on the USEMAP attribute instead of the SRC attribute (but
> that's for attentive users of VERBOSE_IMAGES to decide); but (b) the
> information may be bogus/invalid if SRC was completely absent, see
> previous paragraph, and will be empty if SRC was present but had no
> value, as is the case in the URL in question
> (<http://www.itso.iu.edu/alerts/>).

Here is an example for bogus info being displayed with "verbose
images" in 2.8.3dev.4.  This is invalid HTML since IMG needs a SRC,
but it isn't much different from what's in
<http://www.itso.iu.edu/alerts/>.)

The fact that Lynx normally doesn't do anything with an H1's TITLE
attribute isn't important.  What's important is that that string pops
up in a completely unexpected place.

Note: this will probably crash lynx 2.8.3dev.3 and earlier.

------- snip --------
<TITLE>Test Page</TITLE>
<H1
TITLE="This is H1's TITLE atribute value, it has nothing to do with USEMAP!"
>This H1 has a title attribute.</H1>

<A HREF="/"><IMG USEMAP="#orgmap" BORDER="0" ALT> <MAP NAME="orgmap">
 <AREA HREF="/" ALT=""> </MAP>
</A>
------- snip --------


    Klaus