Remove Obfuscated Code [20081221b]

[Oddysey]

(Dec. 23, 2008 01:37 PM)DarthTrader Wrote:  ........
Well, I'm guessing it would be a malicious kind of script!
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I just can't see why a legitimate site would need to put obfuscated code inside <script ... /script>.

I've seen this kind of thing done often by idiots who think their code doesn't stink (substitute the word of your choice for "code"). It's usually because they're afraid of someone stealing their oh-so-precious super-duper special coding. Or IOW, copyright rears it's ugly head again.

Sigh. It would appear that Santayana is doomed to be quoted forever. No one wants to learn that our Fearless Leader hisownself wrote a Proxo filter to render such obsfucation null and void.

And so far as I know, all browsers can indeed receive and translate any of the standard encoding techniques, be it binary, octal, decimal, hex, UTF-8, hell, even straight ascii! Merely switching the encoding from one format to another before it reaches the browser shouldn't affect the final results. If it does, then there are bigger issues going on than the encoding mechanism.

HTH


Oddysey