On Sunday 11 May 2014 06:25:53 B.R. wrote: [..] > What is the benefit of having those unescaped control characters in a log > file? Escaping them allows you to warn about their presence safely... and > that is directly exploitable by anything, once again safely.
The benefit is that you can easily find in error/debug log exactly what a client has sent with binary precision, and therefore better diagnose a problem. And this actually is the main purpose of error log (normally it's just empty). wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
