Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️anyone know why a service would escape slashes (not backslashes, forward slashes) in their JSON?
like this shit is all {"url":"http:\/\/www.foobar.egg\/web\/site.html"}
is this because /foo/ is a regex string in JS?
but they're inside quotes!
emily, blinkenlight witch@foone I cannot think of a *good* reason, but bad reasons include that or "trying to use the whole ass url as a filesystem path component somewhere"
they didn't escape . so probably not regex
they didn't escape . so probably not regex
@foone cursed DSL where both / and \ work as string escape prefixes
brennen@brennen @foone / as an escape *suffix*
\n = n/
\t = t/
\/ = \/, accidentally ambiguous because someone let the C people do syntax again, later defined to mean / as a patch
edit: you know you're good at computer when your shitposts find bugs in your fedi server https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/4762
\n = n/
\t = t/
\/ = \/, accidentally ambiguous because someone let the C people do syntax again, later defined to mean / as a patch
edit: you know you're good at computer when your shitposts find bugs in your fedi server https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/issues/4762
[bug] Markdown escaping rules applied even when Markdown is turned off
### Describe the bug with a clear and concise description of what the bug is. I made [this post](https://fedi.uni.horse/@emily/statuses/01KKSSWHXVSYFV3R3XQTBSB7PT), in which I suggested a cursed variant of backslash escapes. In the process, I discovered a different cursed variant of backslash es...