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When I finally isolated and reproduced…

When I finally isolated and reproduced this bug today, I will admit I let out a very loud, "oh for fuck's sake!"

I've had even lousier-than-usual luck recently stumbling onto obscure and bizarre bugs in extremely well-used libraries github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/3147

[bug] After encountering 100 unknown XML entities, the SAX parser stops calling Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document#error · Issue #3147 · sparklemotion/nokogiri · GitHub
536 likes · March 12, 2024 at 4:32 PM UTC

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