#fascinated by this idea that if you submit some arbitrary data to an API
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today's great work conversation:
"hey, I posted to that API you wrote, and the data that came out on the other side contains stuff from the database instead of my request body. is that a bug?"
"why did you submit a request body? there's no mention of one in the story. that API doesn't expect, or look at, a request body. how did you even decide what to put in the body?"
"well it was left over from a different test and I didn't remove it"
#programming stuff#fascinated by this idea that if you submit some arbitrary data to an API#it should do its best to make something out of it#i hijack Amazon by making an AWS call where I add a body of {“amazonsNewCeo”: “Ashley”} and the system automatically puts me in charge
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