On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 18:51, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
> I can scream to the rooftops all I want. [...] > > I complained both privately and publically about this. But the world is not > always as we would like it, and sometimes our software needs to deal with > incoming data that is not standards compliant, just the way it is. > Absolutely true. And I think the solution you devised is a good one: take a piece of software that (for reasons unknown to me) accepts malformed input, have it clean up the input and pass it on. No reason to disable checks in a tool that actually does what it should. Out of curiosity: what did this company respond when you asked them to provide protocol-compliant data? I'd like to think that they at least apologised profusely for being unable to keep the tubes clean, as it were, instead of saying "standards shmandards". BR, /David
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