alanshaw/david-www

[Error] Unhandled "type" parameter errors

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#363 opened on Jan 25, 2017

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Description

The input needs to be sanitized !

$ curl http://localhost:1337/alanshaw/grunt-jsio?type=()
SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0
   at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
   at [My PATH]/david-www/node_modules/node-fetch/lib/body.js:48:15
   at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7)

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Investigate the route handler that processes the 'type' parameter and implement input validation to prevent JSON parsing errors.
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