Simon Willison’s Weblog

Bloom Filter Resources. A continuation of the discussion about how to transfer information about a large number of recently updated resources around in an efficient way, Joe provides working code illustrating a simple approach using bloom filters.

# 10:22 pm / rest, joe-gregorio, bloom-filters, hashing

Magnificent Seven—the value of Atom. The seven core things that Atom solves so that you don’t have to.

# 10:24 pm / atom, xml, rest, bill-de-hora

Response Splitting Risk. Important reminder that you should always ensure strings used in HTTP headers don’t contain newlines.

# 11:58 pm / responsesplitting, http, rails, rubyonrails, security