ndusart

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1. 1.▲
   by ndusart 2y ago

   From the mentioned specification: > TCP implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. Better to look in the sources ;)
2. 2.▲
   by ndusart 2y ago

   Yes, that would be concerning indeed... The author couldn't tell why he didn't manage to make run the C or python program but figured it is probably the blame of the language for some obscure reasons. He also mentioned that he sho
3. 3.▲
   by ndusart 2y ago

   You changed the problem. Postel's law is not about writing the protocol but implementing it. Sure, protocol should be designed to be as specific as possible but unfortunately these are not always defined up to that point for any good o
4. 4.▲
   by ndusart 2y ago

   Following Postel's law does not mean to accept anything. The received data should still be unambiguous. You can see that in the case where ASN.1 data need to be exchanged. You could decide to always send them in the DER form (conservat
5. 5.▲
   by ndusart 2y ago

   Cookie value can contain `=`, `/` and `+` characters so standard base64 encoding can be used as well :)
6. 6.▲
   by ndusart 2y ago

   So, just be as conservative as possible when you produce data and as liberal as possible when you receive something. Your code will then require the least cooperation from *any* other code to be compatible with. Doing otherwise will require
7. 7.▲
   by ndusart 3y ago

   Ironically, this supports the message of the article :D