filename checks = wrong filename report

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Thu Jul 10 18:38:32 IST 2008


on 7-10-2008 10:30 AM Matt Kettler spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 7-9-2008 3:19 PM Matt Kettler spake the following:
>>> See, nothing happened, did it? Even if it was thousands of characters 
>>> long, it would be no different, because it's in the body text.
>> How about when that longscaryfilename..... gets sent to syslog. That 
>> is another reason to sanitize the names.
> 
> But in the example posted to this thread syslog gets the unsanitized 
> version..
> 
> It is only the in-body text report which gets the sanitized version. 
> This seems a bit backwards to me.
> 
> 
Julian probably just sanitized everything to reduce code complexity. Much 
easier then another 1000 lines of code to figure out IF something can be bad.

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