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Re: My Airlock
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:41:52 GMT
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:15:24PM +0000, William R Ward wrote:
> Yes, it appears that when Marlon posted that message the encoding got
> screwed up. He's posting from Hotmail, so that's not a surprise.
yes, you are probably correct.
> I think the 3D35441 is being interpreted as just 3. I'm guessing
> Brickshelf uses Perl, and in Perl, when converting a string such as
> "3D35541" to a number, everything after the first non-numeric
> character is ignored. There would probably also be a warning message
> generated but it would appear in the Brickshelf log files which
> probably are never seen by human eyes...
tsk tsk, you never take tainted data and just blindly trust it, do you?
:) I agree that everything from the 'D' on is dropped, but probably
because Kevin, in his infinite wisdom, made brickshelf make SURE that
it's really getting just a number :)
never, ever, trust input you got externally.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) Maybe. But if it were me, I would just throw up an error page rather than truncate the number at the first non-digit. (...) Naturally. I fear that in this case though, that may be what is going on. That's not to say there's *necessarily* a (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) Yes, it appears that when Marlon posted that message the encoding got screwed up. He's posting from Hotmail, so that's not a surprise. I think the 3D35441 is being interpreted as just 3. I'm guessing Brickshelf uses Perl, and in Perl, when (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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