Mike Lang

When an object has Content-Encoding: gzip, and an object download request does not have Accept-Encoding: gzip, GCS will decompress the object before serving it. This is documented here: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/transcoding I've...

new string: ssh escape sequence

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The sequence `\n~.` will cause default-configured ssh sessions to terminate when passed as input. I realise it's horrifying but I have in fact seen this crop up in the wild...

JSON cannot represent some naughty strings

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One of my favourite naughty strings is invalid utf-8 - for example, a bare `\xff`. It's quite common to get 500s,etc on these as no-one ever bothers to check for...