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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by flukus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:25PM (#12458366)
> "callable via text"? What does that even mean?

It means you have to execute commands through a shell. A real API would be something you could include in your program, execute a method against and get a list of objects back. Instead all these basic command are replicated in every framework.

As far as encoding properly, you're preaching to the choir, but out in the real world there is still injection attacks everywhere.

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Friday September 09, 2016 @04:51AM (#12460524)
> It means you have to execute commands through a shell.

Except you don't. There is no need to involve a shell.

> A real API would be something you could include in your program, execute a method against and get a list of objects back.

So, Web APIs are not APIs?

Also, you can execute methods against command line programs, method names usually start with a dash.

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