Just tried it with JRE 1.5.0_22 and observed the StackOverflowError (compiling in Eclipse, switched libraries in my build path, verified with System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.version"))). Perhaps an earlier version of Java 5 might do something different.
I encountered an occasional StackOverflowError in the following method:
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.regexp.HtmlUnitRegExpProxy.doAction()
I found it was related to the following Pattern / Matcher and recreated it outside of HtmlUnit (I will attach scriptText2.txt).
private static void matchTest() {
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new...
