Dear Google,
I'd just like to thank you for disabusing me of the idea that JSON is under some requirement of well-formedness. I'd been labouring under the tyrannical misapprehension that some standards body had written down how JSON was supposed to work and that if I wanted to claim I was using JSON I would have to comply with that specification.
However, I today received a bug report indicating that a project to which I contribute was unable to make HTTP requests your Google Flights website could understand. I found this perplexing, but my eyes were opened when I saw your HTTP request. In particular, I enjoyed your freeform and inclusive definition of JSON. Allow me to show you what you've called JSON by showing you my SPDY request:
:host:www.google.fr
:method:POST
:path:/flights/rpc
:scheme:https
:version:HTTP/1.1
content-length:219
content-type:application/json; charset=UTF-8
origin:https://www.google.fr
referer:https://www.google.fr/flights/
[,[[,"tb","[,[,[[,[\"CFE\"],[\"ORY\",\"CDG\"],\"2014-04-10\"],[,[\"ORY\",\"CDG\"],[\"CFE\"],\"2014-04-14\"]]]]","1842631716884948",3]],[,[[,"b_al","ld:67"],[,"b_ahr","ld:s"],[,"b_am","tb"],[,"b_qu","0"],[,"b_qc","4"]]]]
Let's take another look at that Content-Type header:
content-type:application/json; charset=UTF-8
And now the body:
[,[[,"tb","[,[,[[,[\"CFE\"],[\"ORY\",\"CDG\"],\"2014-04-10\"],[,[\"ORY\",\"CDG\"],[\"CFE\"],\"2014-04-14\"]]]]","1842631716884948",3]],[,[[,"b_al","ld:67"],[,"b_ahr","ld:s"],[,"b_am","tb"],[,"b_qu","0"],[,"b_qc","4"]]]]
Thanks for opening my eyes, Google!
Signed,
A Newly Liberated Software Engineer.