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> More importantly, attempting to respond to invalid inputs is dangerous, for two reasons. First, in such a scenario we've already identified that someone is tr
by jack9 11y ago
> More importantly, attempting to respond to invalid inputs is dangerous, for two reasons. First, in such a scenario we've already identified that someone is trying to be evil;
Being incorrect is not trying to be evil. smh
> Postel's law states that one should be conservative in what one does, but liberal in what one accepts from others; this is great advice for life, but terrible advice for writing software
No evidence of that either. I feel like this was written just to be argumentative; a living example of "Conway's Law".
- cperciva 11y agoBeing incorrect is not trying to be evil. smh No, not necessarily. But nobody ever accidentally sticks a percent-encoded NUL byte into a query string. I feel like this was written just to be argumentative The main reason was so that I had something to point people at when they reported such "bugs" to me, actually.