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0 pointsbascule14y ago0 comments

My favorite part of HN's headers: the lines are separated by naked LFs instead of CRLF, in violation of the HTTP spec

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This is common violation that everyone accepts. It's definitely done by 'bad' clients - not sure how often servers send bare LF.

(I used to telnet to port 80 for testing, and type GET / HTTP/1.0 <enter> <enter>, and that should be LF on Linux & Mac)

basculeOP14y ago

You don't have a problem with one of the most trafficked sites for programming/web startup-related news implementing HTTP incorrectly?

Do you ignore whether your HTML is valid just because the browser rendered it correctly?

Yup.

I've got real work to do. Making a validator happy is fake work.

You don't know that everyone accepts it. Even if they did, it doesn't make it right.

I fixed submitted a patch for this in the pecl_http PHP library:

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

divtxt14y ago