what’s with the snowman in forms?
mirek rusin
http://railssnowman.info/
Interesting. Maybe the wrong place to ask this, but…
Why doesn’t Rails strip _snowman out of params automagically so I don’t
have to worry about it?
Why not change authenticity_token to contain UTF8 characters?
I’m mostly just curious…
-philip
Philip H. wrote:
http://railssnowman.info/
Interesting. Maybe the wrong place to ask this, but…Why doesn’t Rails strip _snowman out of params automagically so I don’t
have to worry about it?
Well you could most likely include your own Rack middleware to “melt the
_snowman” from your params hash. No need to wait (and hope) for the
Rails team to do it for you.
Why not change authenticity_token to contain UTF8 characters?
I would assume that authenticity_token is some form of SHA-1 hash
encoded in Base64, which by definition produces 7-bit ASCII character
strings.
Philip H. wrote:
http://railssnowman.info/
Interesting. Maybe the wrong place to ask this, but…Why doesn’t Rails strip _snowman out of params automagically so I don’t
have to worry about it?
As of tonight the snowman is gone entirely. The key is “utf8” and the
value is ✓ (✓). Far more on the sane side.
Why not change authenticity_token to contain UTF8 characters?
That’s a freakin GREAT idea. Or at least don’t include the snowman
when doing a GET request from a form… It just looks wrong
somehow…
Why not change authenticity_token to contain UTF8 characters?
I would assume that authenticity_token is some form of SHA-1 hash
encoded in Base64, which by definition produces 7-bit ASCII character
strings.
Oh, duh. That makes sense. Still, they could just strip it off the
end… but that might be overloading behavior into something that’s
“been around” for a long time.
-philip.
Parker S. wrote:
Philip H. wrote:
http://railssnowman.info/
Interesting. Maybe the wrong place to ask this, but…Why doesn’t Rails strip _snowman out of params automagically so I don’t
have to worry about it?As of tonight the snowman is gone entirely. The key is “utf8” and the
value is ✓ (✓). Far more on the sane side.
Probably saner, but the snowman was cute! I’ll miss it.
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
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