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Comment by BeefWellington

> I don't get what the point of this feature even is.

This is basically the response to every type of vulnerability that is based on some spec nobody's read. Same deal with XML entity parsing. Why should it make web requests, FTP requests, etc.?

At some point someone had it as a requirement and everyone else gets to live with it.

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