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http://github.com/%%30%30 http://github.com/%%30%30 pasting this in slack also crashes Slack.

cbd1984 11y ago
My little web client just prints this header with no body: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Pragma: no-cache cache-control: no-cache Location: /%%30%30 Maybe the infinite loop is the real problem here.
szhu 11y ago
I had to switch back from Atom to Sublime to make this, because Atom is based on Chromium :(
haddr 11y ago
even hovering mouse over this link in the comment above crashes chrome
- szhu 11y ago
  That's exactly how the game works!
  - haddr 11y ago
    thanks, I got it, but didn't realize it was THAT simple :) more details here on the bug in chromium here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361
fotcorn 11y ago
Funnily enough, opening this url gives a GitHub Server Error.
- r3bl 11y ago
  Yup, opening this on my own website (hosted using GitHub's repositories) also gave me an error.
dshankar 11y ago
Explanation for why this is occurring: Slack's desktop apps are HTML5 webapps wrapped inside native desktop wrappers. Specifically, Slack uses Github's Electron (formerly, Atom Shell) which is basically Chromium. The desktop app is a webpage inside Chromium.
- JoeAltmaier 11y ago
  Yeah, I strenuously object to the fad of calling wrapped web pages 'native apps'. They get zero benefits that would normally accrue to real native apps. They just launch 'as if' they were native.
  - szhu 11y ago
    "They just launch 'as if' they were native." That's a pretty big benefit to most end-users.
    - moron4hire 11y ago
      I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've seen studies that say 80% of users prefer apps over the mobile web. I know I've certainly seen an almost hostile attitude towards web app offerings over native app versions. And it all seems to boil down to one thing. You can get good-enough access to just about everything on the phone through an HTML5 app--certainly enough for a large proportion of apps--except for "installs through the app store".
      - michaelmior 11y ago
        For Slack I believe the discussion was desktop app vs web app, not mobile web app vs native mobile app.
      - toyg 11y ago
        > I don't know why you're getting downvoted. "A is not B" "but A has C properties" Native apps are not defined in terms of having benefits; they have specific technical characteristics that embedded webpages just don't have. So the fact that embedded webpages may or may not have benefits is irrelevant to the statement that they are just not native apps. I guess that's where downvoters are coming from.
ps4fanboy 11y ago
If you paste the link in chrome and visit it, crashes the whole browser not just the tab.
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0xCMP 11y ago
Hovering over this link also makes it crash like when you hover over the trees

cbd1984 11y ago

My little web client just prints this header with no body: HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: close Pragma: no-cache cache-control: no-cache Location: /%%30%30 Maybe the infinite loop is the real problem here.

szhu 11y ago

I had to switch back from Atom to Sublime to make this, because Atom is based on Chromium :(

haddr 11y ago

even hovering mouse over this link in the comment above crashes chrome

szhu 11y ago
That's exactly how the game works!
- haddr 11y ago
  thanks, I got it, but didn't realize it was THAT simple :) more details here on the bug in chromium here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=533361

fotcorn 11y ago

Funnily enough, opening this url gives a GitHub Server Error.

r3bl 11y ago
Yup, opening this on my own website (hosted using GitHub's repositories) also gave me an error.

dshankar 11y ago

Explanation for why this is occurring: Slack's desktop apps are HTML5 webapps wrapped inside native desktop wrappers. Specifically, Slack uses Github's Electron (formerly, Atom Shell) which is basically Chromium. The desktop app is a webpage inside Chromium.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
Yeah, I strenuously object to the fad of calling wrapped web pages 'native apps'. They get zero benefits that would normally accrue to real native apps. They just launch 'as if' they were native.
- szhu 11y ago
  "They just launch 'as if' they were native." That's a pretty big benefit to most end-users.
  - moron4hire 11y ago
    I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I've seen studies that say 80% of users prefer apps over the mobile web. I know I've certainly seen an almost hostile attitude towards web app offerings over native app versions. And it all seems to boil down to one thing. You can get good-enough access to just about everything on the phone through an HTML5 app--certainly enough for a large proportion of apps--except for "installs through the app store".
    - michaelmior 11y ago
      For Slack I believe the discussion was desktop app vs web app, not mobile web app vs native mobile app.
    - toyg 11y ago
      > I don't know why you're getting downvoted. "A is not B" "but A has C properties" Native apps are not defined in terms of having benefits; they have specific technical characteristics that embedded webpages just don't have. So the fact that embedded webpages may or may not have benefits is irrelevant to the statement that they are just not native apps. I guess that's where downvoters are coming from.

ps4fanboy 11y ago

If you paste the link in chrome and visit it, crashes the whole browser not just the tab.

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0xCMP 11y ago

Hovering over this link also makes it crash like when you hover over the trees