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Detailed Error Messages (lemmy.zip)

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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep. Apparently outlook does this and afaik because some kind of link sniffing/scam detection/whatever, but it does it by changing the first characters of each query argument around.

We spent amazingly long time figuring that one out. "Who the hell has gotten Microsoft service querying our app with malformed query args and why"