Re: [Chicken-janitors] #1074: intarweb request parsing and Spiffy handling of said requests is inconsistent in case of improper request line URIs

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#1074: intarweb request parsing and  Spiffy handling of said requests is
inconsistent in case of improper request line URIs
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  Reporter:  RvdH     |       Owner:  sjamaan               
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  major    |   Milestone:  someday               
 Component:  unknown  |     Version:  4.8.x                 
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  bad-request connection
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Comment(by RvdH):

 > However, there are much wider security and connection stability concerns
 at stake in this particular instance.

 Sorry, but I can think of none.

 > On balance, I think we should do the safest thing, rather than the most
 elegant or most useful thing.

 It has nothing to do with safeness, elegance or usefulness. It has to do
 with conformance to a specification. For example, non-conformance to a
 specification is exactly what went wrong with all the different browsers
 trying to implement HTML.

 If you claim to be a HTTP server, you implement the HTTP specification. It
 is that simple.

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