{"id":32,"date":"2010-02-05T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-02-06T17:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T01:16:33","slug":"why-isnt-the-form-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t the map form working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruby script that process the map configuration information given in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ns6t.net\/azimuth\/azimuth.html\" target=\"_blank\">map form<\/a> is very particular about what information it will accept. For example, if you enter a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maidenhead_Locator_System\" target=\"_blank\">Maidenhead grid<\/a> as fn31 instead of FN31, the program will not produce a map because the first two letters are supposed to be upper case. Similarly, the title will be rejected if it has non-printable or non-ASCII characters.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the program to be very strict about checking its inputs to ensure that people cannot cause the program to generate a hostile PDF.\u00a0 Rather than trying to identify and detect all the bad things a malicious person might enter to generate malicious output, I have instead tried to ensure that only safe characters are allowed in the input.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ruby script that process the map configuration information given in the map form is very particular about what information it will accept. For example, if you enter a Maidenhead grid as fn31 instead of FN31, the program will not produce a map because the first two letters are supposed to be upper case. Similarly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/?p=32\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t the map form working?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ns6t.net\/word\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}