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
Hugo Mills
afewchoicewords@darkling ..that's so evil
@afewchoicewords Why, thank you. 