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Re: FYI: JSON parsing

Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Thu, 27 October 2016 05:35 UTC

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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 11:50:47AM +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> For those who haven't seen it, this is a pretty deep dive on JSON parsing ambiguities and mis-implementations.
> 
>   http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.html
> 
> Food for thought...

Thanks a lot for this link. I thought writing a JSON parser was easy, and
it seems that many implementers thought the same and were wrong as well!

Willy

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