From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MARS shooter. Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:04:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87bncp49in.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8761377ct3.fsf@elephly.net> <871tdu7r3f.fsf@elephly.net> <87oagqrufu.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfp9L-0005vy-ER for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:04:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zfp9I-0002Iq-9P for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 09:04:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87oagqrufu.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2015 17:30:53 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Thompson, David writes: > >> No, upstream needs to fix their invalid Content-Type header. We've >> had this problem a few times, most recently with rubygems.org, and in >> all cases we've gotten upstream to fix it. Strict header parsing can >> seem like an issue at times, but it's really a very good feature that >> the rest of the world seems to ignore. [0] > > So this is less about this package itself but rather this general issue > of parsing Content-Type headers, which has come up repeatedly... > > "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from > others"... when it comes to the web, we should follow the Robustness > Principle: I agree with that. Now, if it turns out that in practice we encounter few misbehaving servers, as seems to be the case here, then I think it makes sense to contact their operators and see if they can fix it. Ludo=E2=80=99.