Input validation and parsing discipline (djb "don't parse" + Margaret Hamilton's defensive design) for wings. Use when writing or changing any code that reads catalogs, templates, flex blocks, URLs, env vars, fetch responses, js.Values, or webdev-supplied attributes.
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Input validation and parsing discipline (djb "don't parse" + Margaret Hamilton's defensive design) for wings. Use when writing or changing any code that reads catalogs, templates, flex blocks, URLs, env vars, fetch responses, js.Values, or webdev-supplied attributes.
Hostile Input & Parsing Discipline
Two converging sources:
djb: parsing is where security bugs concentrate. Avoid parsing; when
unavoidable, parse once, at the boundary, into a typed structure, and let
interior code consume only the typed result. Prefer formats too simple to
misparse.
Margaret Hamilton (Apollo): "the operator is trained and won't make
mistakes" is not a defense. Her prelaunch-program bug report was dismissed
on exactly that argument — then Jim Lovell triggered it on Apollo 8 (P01
wipe). Validate everyone's input: end users, webdevs, and our own build
artifacts.
Rules
Parse at the trust boundary, never again. Each input crosses exactly
one validator that produces a typed Go value. Downstream functions take
the typed value, not the raw string. If a function deep in the call tree
does strings.Split on data that arrived from outside, the boundary
leaked.
Reject, don't repair. Malformed input → typed error and stop
(feedback_errors_over_panic: public API returns error; the app dev
decides whether to panic). Fixing up input silently creates two parsers:
the real one and the one in the attacker's head. Documented exception:
expr.ParseFlexBlock leniency deliberately falls back to literal
passthrough (render-as-text), which is a fail-closed default, not repair.
Prefer dumb formats. JSON via encoding/json into a concrete struct
(DisallowUnknownFields when the schema is closed) beats any hand-rolled
format. If you design a format, make it a fixed shape, not a language.
Validate the meaning, not just the shape. BCP-47 tags go through the
guard (don't interpolate raw lang strings into URLs/paths); indices into
catalogs are bounds-checked; file paths from config are cleaned and
confined to the expected root (the dev server's dotfile/key blocking in
cmd/build is the model).
Webdev input is input. Template attributes, binding names, wings.json,
WINGS_* env vars. Silent failure is the worst outcome — the camelCase
binding lint in cmd/build/lint.go exists because the HTML parser
lowercases attribute names and the mismatch failed silently. New
template-facing features must either work or fail the build with
file:line; never render wrong quietly.
wings trust boundaries (audit points)
Boundary
Validator
Catalog JSON + .sig fetched at runtime
wi18n/verify.go (ed25519, fail-closed when key set)
