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Comment by tredre3

1 month ago

Your opinion is that if, for a godforsaken reason, someone needs to rewrite URLs in their web server, they should avoid PCRE (something designed for string manipulation) because it's overkill, and they should use Lua (a full programming language) instead?

Am I understanding you correctly?

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GoblinSlayer  1 month ago

Because lua supports string manipulation without buffer overflows.

jhatemyjob  1 month ago

Yes.

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