----- Original Message ---- > From: Jonathan Vanasco <jvana...@2xlp.com> > To: modperl <modperl@perl.apache.org> > 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.