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Re: [jose] "x5c" - JSON Compatible?

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Tue, 13 January 2015 11:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] "x5c" - JSON Compatible?
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On Tuesday, January 13, 2015, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The spec claims the following:
>
>   "Note that since these strings contain base64 encoded
>   (not base64url encoded) values, they are allowed to contain
>   white space and line breaks."
>
> Is this really JSON compliant?
>
> I didn't interpret the JSON spec in that way and Python and Chrome seems
> to agree with me.
>
> What's I'm missing here?


Are you seriously suggesting that JSON strings can't contain white space?

Control characters have to be escaped, but they can definitely be there.

JSON.parse('["this is...\\u000A...a string"]')

--Richard



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