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Re: [PATCH] Add MARS shooter.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] Add MARS shooter. |
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Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:04:16 +0200 |
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Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
> Thompson, David writes:
>
>> No, upstream needs to fix their invalid Content-Type header. We've
>> had this problem a few times, most recently with rubygems.org, and in
>> all cases we've gotten upstream to fix it. Strict header parsing can
>> seem like an issue at times, but it's really a very good feature that
>> the rest of the world seems to ignore. [0]
>
> So this is less about this package itself but rather this general issue
> of parsing Content-Type headers, which has come up repeatedly...
>
> "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
> others"... when it comes to the web, we should follow the Robustness
> Principle:
I agree with that. Now, if it turns out that in practice we encounter
few misbehaving servers, as seems to be the case here, then I think it
makes sense to contact their operators and see if they can fix it.
Ludo’.
Re: [PATCH] Add MARS shooter., Eric Bavier, 2015/09/19
Re: [PATCH] Add MARS shooter., Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/09/20