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Yeah, now try other (valid) variants and see what their code does with them.
Edit:
A .net method/property which takes an IP address as a parameter should take a System.Net.IPAddress rather than a string.
modified 14-Oct-19 23:20pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: when I C&P'd my router's public IP address into the dialog box
Copy & Paste, indeed! I expect more from you. You should be typing more.
Trim()
Seriously though...it seems really odd (terrible) that they didn't at least do a String.Trim() on the incoming string since it is such a freebie in almost every language (java, C#, javascript). Many more languages have it of course, but it is just named something slightly different.
I never trust user input because I used to do a lot of testing and open input boxes are the best way to break a program.
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raddevus wrote: ...open input boxes are the best way to break a program. Indeed.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Yep, Little Bobby Tables. The newest on this one is real -- the guy who chose NULL for his license plate:
How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell | WIRED[^]
Summary, every time a cop didn't have the license plate for the ticket a NULL got entered into the database for the license plate. That meant all ticket fines got assigned to the owner with the license plate of NULL.
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In another jurisdiction, "NO PLATE" had the same effect.
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err,
getting back to the OP message then...
if the guy was smarter he would have chosen (without the quotes) "NULL ", " NULL" or " NULL " as his plate.
(ya jus gotta find one of those forms where you enter each letter into a box - excuse for the last 2 "wanted it centered".
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yes, I take some responsibility, but not all the responsibility!!!
How does that go again? "Be generous in what you accept for input, but strict about what you output..."?
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Stringly typing never seems to get out of fashion.Strict typing can be a pain at times, but in the end it's one of your strongest allies. Taking the lazy way out breeds so many small and large horrors, but why waste a thought on it when they waste other people's time?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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public class IPAddress
{
public int FirstPart { get; set; }
public int SecondPart { get; set; }
public int ThirdPart { get; set; }
public int FourthPart { get; set; }
public override string ToString()
{
return $"{FirstPart}.{SecondPart}.{ThirdPart}.{FourthPart}";
}
}
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We're going to have to wash your mouth out with SOAP young man...
Software Zen: delete this;
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You should see my IPv6 implementation
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public class IPv6Address : IPAddress
{
public int FourthPartSubPartA { set; get; }
public int FourthPartSubPartB { set; get; }
public override string ToString()
{
return $"{FirstPart}:{SecondPart}:{ThirdPart}:{FourthPart}:{FourthPartSubPartA}:{FourthPartSubPartB}";
}
} Something like this, no?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Those trailing space problems get worse when SQL Server gets involved, or the way we have it set up anyway. While a string with a trailing space is completely different to one without in .NET, TSQL matches them both. Causes a key-caching nightmare when not validated!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Not to mention that T-SQL will trim only character 32 and not other "whitespace characters".
And as a bonus, it does the same thing with VARBINARY, not just VARCHAR.
(LEN as well.)
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I was looking for the manual and map that came with an old game. Looks like the box also contained this opportunity[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Unfortunately, the salary is also paid at 1980's rates ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Go get the DeLorean and we just travel back.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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My Flux Capacitor is still printing, it may be a while.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Come over. My BoP is ok and we can use the old 'fly around the sun at warp speed' method.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Sorry - I can't read Klingon.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I'm curious - what's the game?
/ravi
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This one here.[^] You may want to skip the epic loading procedure, but this was before the days of hard disks for everyone.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Oh god. And to think that once was state of the art. 3D rendering!!! Chunk. Chunk. Chunk. Pretty cool, I imagine it made some waves in its day.
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On a 2 MHz 6502. The 8 bit Ataris were great. While the frame rate was not very high, but the emulator and the recording software make the graphics look choppier than they actually were. Not so bad at all for a computer that was designed before 1980. And this game also was ahead of its time in many ways.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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