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Re:Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets by enzanki_ars on Saturday November 04, 2017 @06:09PM (#15627149)
I would assume that sending that message via the API bypasses some of the same checks the app does. Not sure though.
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Re:Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets by mschuster91 on Saturday November 04, 2017 @06:27PM (#15627205)
And this is why your validation logic should be done on server side...
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Re:Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets by justboxing on Saturday November 04, 2017 @10:07PM (#15627833)
And this is why your validation logic should also be done on server side...
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Re:Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets by xPaw on Saturday November 04, 2017 @06:13PM (#15627162)
The app doesn't care though, it just thinks it's an URL and counts the entire string as 23 characters.
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Re:Some people on Twitter can post 35k-char tweets by mablae on Saturday November 04, 2017 @06:11PM (#15627155)
They seem to have already a mitigation fix in place. Does not work anymore. Gives error 500 on m.twitter.com now.
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