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Re: Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers

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• Subject: Re: Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers
• From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney@i...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:43:23 -0500
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• References: <004201c3db9f$88dd3fb0$650aa8c0@BOBDEV> <200401152018.02233.miles@m...>

> Intermediaries will always be in this bind: they can't guarantee that
> they will be able to deliver a correct response to a correct request
> because they're at the mercy of the behaviour of the upstream server.

Yet that shouldn't mean "do nothing"

Run the incoming content through even the most crude of filters.  Be sure what
you're outputting isn't making things /worse/.  As in, must because your
upstream provider is making fubar content doesn't mean you should pass it along.
Clean it up and point the finger of shame back at them.  Perhaps do the pointing
privately, of course.  Or use a third party like Syndic8.

-Bill Kearney

• References:
  • Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers
    • From: "Bob Wyman" <bob@w...>
  • Re: Postel's "Law": A question for liberal parsers
    • From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>

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