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How to pass “Null” (a real surname) to a SOAP web service?
- paulddraper 7y agoThis is terrifying.
- paulddraper 7y agoThis is terrifying. Not because I am filled with empathy for all the Mr. and Mrs. Nulls out there, but because whoever wrote/designed this surely made more such mistakes. The stuff RCE is made of.
- HocusLocus 7y agoThis reminds me of CP/M and MSDOS days when the OS imported a great deal of -invisible magic- to the name space ... three letter device names like CON, NUL, PRN ... and drivers could add their own.
- zifnab06 7y agoThese are still maintained in windows 10 for backward compatibility, oddly enough
- wiseleo 7y agoI use "copy con file.txt" almost daily when dealing with heavily locked down systems.
- paulddraper 7y agoHello from 2017. http://sasheldon.com/blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-windows/ http://sasheldon.com/blog/2017/05/07/how-i-broke-cargo-for-w...
- beart 7y agoThis is from 2010.
- ultrarunner 7y agoI just had a participant with a surname of Null sign up through a piece of software I’m responsible for. It was initially shocking, but seeing Null capitalized seemed good. All this time I thought Bobby Tables was just a scary myth!
- perl4ever 7y agoLike, this is why you use bind variables, right? One of the fundamental aspects of the world being messed up, to me, is the prevalence and acceptance of in-band signaling.
- perl4ever 7y agoI was dealing with XML via a REST interface the other day, and was amused by the fact that nulls are represented as an attribute named "null" with a value "true", but if not null, the attribute doesn't exist, which means it becomes an actual Null, which means, of course, False. But not "false". And by "amused" I mean it made my head hurt when trying to figure out a clear and self-documenting way to write a few lines to decode it.