On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 7:37 PM Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > [...] > Turning back more to protocol design, we have spent decades walking > back Postel's Law as we find more and more ways that being liberal > in what our software accepts is untenable in the face of a hostile > Internet.
++. Postel's Law is a disaster nowadays. It was fine back in the 1980's, but it is dangerous in the toxic environments of today. Here's what we teach our developers: Look for any reason you can to reject the data. If you can't find a reason, then begrudgingly perform the processing or transformation. Jeff
