----- Original Message ----
> From: Jonathan Vanasco <[email protected]>
> To: modperl <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:30:20 PM
> Subject: Re: dealing with empty field names in query
>
>
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Phil Carmody wrote:
>
> > In those name/value pairs, according to HTML 4 at least, the names must
> > begin
> with a letter [A-Za-z]. The empty string does not do so. Garbage in, garbage
> out.
>
>
>
> Part of me agrees with that philosophy.
>
> Another part of me is more practical.
>
> We had to stop using libapreq2 for cookies, because we found out that
> wordpress
> (being a shoddy piece of software) was generating invalid cookies at times.
> when apreq encountered it, it segfaulted.
What version of apreq was this? And did you report it to the apreq-dev@
mailing list?
> so while the engineering part of me is okay with garbage in / garbage out,
> the
> management side of me says sometimes you have to expect bad data and try to
> make
> the best of it - otherwise you lose customers and revenue.
