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Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by colomon on Monday February 04, 2013 @07:06AM (#5163671)
As jbert pointed out, if your program's main job is to say whether or not something is safe, and it liberally says "Oh yeah, I think that's safe", that's pretty much the exact opposite of "be conservative in what you do".
Re:Postel’s Principle is a Bad Idea by im3w1l on Monday February 04, 2013 @02:02PM (#5166227)
Please explain the proper way of escaping/rejecting html in forum posts, when you can't rely on the browsers following the spec.