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hamburglar 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I’ve banned query strings

My next website is going to have the path portion of the URL be a base64 encoded ASN.1 blob.

chrismorgan 3 months ago | [–]

So long as it starts with a slash, go ahead! See how long it takes for someone to figure it out.

It’s your website. Have fun with it! Do dumb things! :-)

rkeene2 3 months ago | [–]

Make sure you use URL-safe base64 or the portions that looks like a path can get mangled

MII//epi

Is converted to MII/epi

yencabulator 3 months ago | [–]

That would be broken software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///

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