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Re: URI resolution & safety

From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 08:24:25 -0800
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011125082329.01d57bd8@brandenburg.com>
To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Cc: paf@cisco.com (Patrik Fältström ), discuss@apps.ietf.org 
At 10:15 AM 11/25/2001 -0500, Mark Baker wrote:
>That's quite reasonable, but it doesn't change the fact that people (and
>software) expect to be able to resolve URI without consequence.

One more time:  Any software that processes an external string without 
checking its safety IN REAL TIME is software that needs to be fixed.

d/


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