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Comment by meowface

6 years ago

The bottom of the post elaborates it.

They said it was for XSS detection. I think the purpose was to identify reflected XSS by looking for paths or headers containing JavaScript-esque variable assignment (JS keywords/syntax preceding "something=something"), but not 100% sure.

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