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> (And the number of times I've watched a dev attempt to implement some standard while steadfastly refusing to read the standard. Then I proceed to find bug after bug, trivially … because I am reading the standard…)

This is a large part of why I expect the binary protocols HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 to be more reliable and less buggy than the textual HTTP/1 once all the dust settles: you won’t get far without reading at least parts of the specs, and they’re harder to implement, so there will be fewer implementations, with a higher average quality.



If you implement HTTP, surely your service is behind nginx. So it does not matter much, nginx is not going to send evil data to you.




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