Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

Tagged “json”

  1. TIL how JSON bet on simplicity

    I had a goal of being able to put JSON standard on the back of a business card

  2. TIL using jq to turn JSON into CSV

    jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data all within the command line.

  3. TIL Never deserializing untrusted data

    This happened the most in PHP, because for some reason, PHP developers love to serialize/deserialize objects instead of using JSON, but I’d say almost every case we saw where a server was deserializing a client object and parsing it led to a horrible exploit.

  4. TIL a JWT decoder and how it works

    JWT (JSON Web Tokens) are essentially just JSON objects that are hashed. This site decodes them and explains how it works

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