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usonian

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10. There is protection against hack attacks
Mon Oct 23, 2023, 03:58 PM
Oct 2023

and some characters are apparently forbidden, as is some HTML.

As an outside example, Mister Null has real problems with computers, as it's a reserved word.

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

But there's a dark side to being a Null, and you coders out there are way ahead of me on this. For those of you unwise in the ways of programming, the problem is that "null" is one of those famously "reserved" text strings in many programming languages. Making matters worse is that software programs frequently use "null" specifically to ensure that a data field is not empty, so it's often rejected as input in a web form.


Quotes and html blocks can contain payloads designed to inject code or database commands.

"The internet's one tough town"

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I did it. Got the same result. Glorfindel Oct 2023 #1
It's bizarre - drop the "in", or the quotes, and it's OK muriel_volestrangler Oct 2023 #3
"What's bosy"? questionseverything Oct 2023 #2
Body? marybourg Oct 2023 #4
Yep - corrected (nt) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2023 #5
Anything in the title questionseverything Oct 2023 #6
Hmm - slightly different quotes muriel_volestrangler Oct 2023 #8
Anything questionseverything Oct 2023 #11
Ah - on my (British) laptop keyboard the standard double quote is purely vertical muriel_volestrangler Oct 2023 #13
Cool 😎 questionseverything Oct 2023 #14
I actually got a "403 Forbidden" message. Glorfindel Oct 2023 #7
Sorry, it was 403 - I wrote 404 by accident muriel_volestrangler Oct 2023 #9
There is protection against hack attacks usonian Oct 2023 #10
Yeah, I was wondering if that is what causes it muriel_volestrangler Oct 2023 #12
There are also those temporary blockages. usonian Oct 2023 #15
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