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A filter list is definitely not HTML

• briffle 4y ago
  They host the zipped files of content for haveIbeenPwned for Troy Hunt...
  • sp332 4y ago
    That's a special project they decided to take on, not subject to the standard ToS.
    • matheusmoreira 4y ago
      They should put EasyLisy in that special project category. It's just too important to the internet.
• Macha 4y ago
  The minimal spec valid HTML5 document is currently: <!DOCTYPE html> <title>a</title> Practically, browsers will accept omitting both of these, and the spec even allows for omitting the title "if it is provided by a higher level protocol" So it's not that crazy an argument that a plain text file is a html document
  • LinAGKar 4y ago
    Only because they've so comprehensively defined HTML parsing that even parsing random data has a well-defined result.
  • deleted 4y ago
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  • pests 4y ago
    Too technical. They serve websites to browsers for people to view. This file (be it properly formatted .html or .txt) is not a website people go to in their browser - its used internally by an application. This is the key point.
  • kenmacd 4y ago
    You're looking at it backwards though. CF doesn't _actually_ care about what the content is, only that they can apply their DDoS protections to it. If you're serving a text file that's much more difficult as they can't replace it with their own content.