bug-hunt

What is causing the jumps here?

I have a winforms app that is supposed to display a tiled background and use click-and-drag to pan around. Most of the time it work but there are a few spots where it jumps in the wrong direction (for instance if I click and drag up across the center line of the form, it jumps down by about half a screen). I can't seem to find anything w...

Encoding minimum characters in POST request: is it safe or not?

I came across an approach to encode just the following 4 characters in the POST parameter's value: # ; & +. What problems can it cause, if any? Personally I dislike such hacks. The reason why I'm asking about this one is that I have an argument with its inventor. Update. To clarify, this question is about encoding parameters in the POS...