Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > I think not. If you intentionally store binary data in syslog (why?) you can > use > base64. The vis call is to prevent harm, not guarantee it's unambiguous. > Lots of potential syslog calls are already ambiguous if the user provides > inputs containing spaces. A structured format like json seems like the right > thing, so it'd be nice if syslog didn't interfere. > > At least when I looked at a similar problem recently, I cared about censoring > the control characters, but not recovering them.
If we do this, I think we should document it somehow that the payload is massaged.
