Naughty Words at Azure’s cloudapp.net (NSFW in French)
I was configuring some Windows Azure sites today. When prompted for a globally unique public name for an account, I started playing with the Check Availability button.
Not surprisingly, there’s a filter that bans the use of the common English-language curse words - plus many words that might offend sensibilities in Anglophone cultures. For example, you can’t use the URL:
Porn, slut, and wanker are banned words as well.
However, lesser naughty words like horny, fart, crap, and puke are allowed.
Since Canada has two official languages, I wondered whether they filtered for common French-Canadian curse words. Well, the list is quite inconsistent. For example, crisse and ostie are banned at Azure but I was able to register the highly naughty:
Of course there are other ways to offend using allowed words. I created the following public storage account URL: