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Comment by LinAGKar | Hacker News Reader

A filter list is definitely not HTML

The minimal spec valid HTML5 document is currently:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <title>a</title>

Practically, browsers will accept omitting both of these, and the spec even allows for omitting the title "if it is provided by a higher level protocol"

So it's not that crazy an argument that a plain text file is a html document

Too technical.

They serve websites to browsers for people to view. This file (be it properly formatted .html or .txt) is not a website people go to in their browser - its used internally by an application. This is the key point.

You're looking at it backwards though. CF doesn't _actually_ care about what the content is, only that they can apply their DDoS protections to it. If you're serving a text file that's much more difficult as they can't replace it with their own content.

Only because they've so comprehensively defined HTML parsing that even parsing random data has a well-defined result.

They host the zipped files of content for haveIbeenPwned for Troy Hunt...

That's a special project they decided to take on, not subject to the standard ToS.

They should put EasyLisy in that special project category. It's just too important to the internet.

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