Re:Dangers of CSV Injection
by kqr on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:39AM
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See, one of the reasons CSV managed to get so ubiquitous is precisely because all those things are unspecified. CSV is not a popular format; CSV is the name we give 960 visually similar but very different formats that as a collective are popular.
The thing you use CSV for is not it's technical merit. You use CSV for its ubiquity. If you nailed down all those things you talk about, you would have a much, much smaller user base and there would be no reason to use CSV in the first place.
(Hey, this reminds me of a similar situation governing s/CSV/C/g...)
The thing you use CSV for is not it's technical merit. You use CSV for its ubiquity. If you nailed down all those things you talk about, you would have a much, much smaller user base and there would be no reason to use CSV in the first place.
(Hey, this reminds me of a similar situation governing s/CSV/C/g...)