sebbacon/alaveteli — Issue #299: wvWare word document conversion sometimes loops forever
Author: robinhouston
Created: 2011-11-29 15:36:48+00:00
State: open

For example, this doc:

http://www.nelincs.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAAzADEAOQA2AHwAfABUAHIAdQBlAHwAfAAwAHwA0

(which was sent in response to a request on WDTK)

If we try to convert it to HTML using wvWare 1.2.4 on Debian squeeze, it will produce a few hundred lines of HTML output and then go into a loop, consuming CPU and making no syscalls.