Robert Spier
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Robert Spier is a member of the Site Reliability Engineering group at Google. He spends his spare time helping to run
perl.org and volunteering at a local dog rescue.
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A Canary Trap for URI Escaping
Publish Date: Feb. 23, 2006
As web applications talk to each other more and more, the issue of URI escaping becomes more important--and more difficult. Escaping reserved characters correctly is vital to preserving user security and proper behavior, but it's neither idempotent nor free. Robert Spier shows how to build a canary trap into your URIs to help you escape and unescape data appropriately, effectively, and sufficiently.