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isInHell = 'true' (fedia.io)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

Is the backend Python and the frontend JavaScript? Because then that would happen and just be normal, because Boolean true is True in python.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Probably, but if you're interpreting user inputs as raw code, you've got much much worse problems going on, lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Given the warning about capitalization, the best possible case is that they're using ast.literal_eval() rather than throwing untrusted input into eval().

Err, I guess they might be comparing strings to 'True' and are choosing to be really strict about capitalization for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. Maybe .to_lower() is really expensive in their environment, lol.

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