Re: [Gzz] Loom stalls after repeated attempts to load crap?

[Benja Fallenstein]

Hi Toni,

Thanks for your bug report!

Alatalo Toni wrote:
> came to a mac lab to test how Fenfire (well, Loom) seems on a standard
> default macosx install. downloaded all the rdf's Benja mentions in
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gzz-dev/2003-03/msg00150.html
...
> strangely enough, that slashdot.rss seems to be binary (copied to
> http://an.org/fenfire/broken/slashdot.rss)
...
> i guess this is a non-issue - just that there is no exception handling, or
> whats the correct term, i mean detecting whether a file is valid rdf or
> not .. and something nasty can happen if some rubbish is loaded?

You're absolutely right, that's the bug here. This is an exception we 
have to handle; we need to catch it and show a message window.

Working on it, thanks.

- Benja