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Discussion on: Why Facebook's api starts with a for loop

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Joshua Arnott • Edited

I can see how adding an infinite for-loop at the start of the JSON response would prevent it from being executed as JavaScript. How does the original site access the data? Does it need to use a function to discard the first X bytes of every response before loading the JSON? Or is there something I'm missing?

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Antony Garand

This is exactly it!

As they load the string version of the JSON, they can remove their JS breaking mechanism before parsing it