Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by loeg on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:50PM
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I expect all commonly used HTTP clients (Chrome, Firefox, IE, even libcurl) and servers (Apache, Nginx, does IIS still exist?) get this right.
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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
by MichaelGG on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:52PM
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I, too, would expect that the most common pieces of software with massive amounts of engineering time invested get it right (but almost certainly with a performance hit). But I'd be unsurprised to find that one doesn't handle the http parsing spec correctly somewhere.
The issue is that such a spec is entirely unneeded and overly complicated. No benefit, only downsides. And for something as simple as basic parsing rules! Not even getting into anything that should be difficult.