I support a website which provides Atom feeds. The client has recently changed direction, and now wants to have their in-house developer (Declan) create a front end for our site, embedded in another site which they control. This other site runs on Drupal, which has a feed aggregator in its core modules, so that should be simple, right? We noticed ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"]You just referred to something in IE 4 as if it has any relevance at all to the year 2013.[/quote] Some of the limitations of MS-DOS are still pissing off everyone who uses PowerShell in 2013, and that predates IE 4 by 16 years.

[quote user="spamcourt"][quote user="drurowin"][quote user="joe.edwards"]I'm pretty well shocked that no one has pointed out the only Right Way is to keep the original mimetype stored along with the rest of the file metadata.[/quote] My idea is more like telling the user agent "Here, it's YOUR problem ...

[quote user="Ben L."]TRWTF is it's my birthday and I'm celebrating by typing things into a chromebook with Community Server in the active window.[/quote] Just think: you could be getting a union card and a wedding coat.

[quote user="bullrider718"]I ask around, and sure enough, we're encrypting the item ids in the URL. Someone tells me where the encryption method is (of course it's buried in some massive static "class" named "Utilities" with a super descriptive name "ESTR") so I dig through the code and find ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]nosliwmas is in England, a nation that, last time I checked, is occupying several territories, like Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales..[/quote] At least part of that is wrong: really it's Scotland that's occupying England. Anyway, I have a compromise between those arguing for the status quo and those ...

[quote user="joe.edwards"][quote user="blakeyrat"]I give the reason it can't be done FIRST. It's like writing a newspaper article, you lead off with the most important bit of information, "it would completely break all our apps, but..."[/quote] I tried that, too. You must have wiser business users than I. ...

[quote user="Ronald"]So what, you had an outstanding credit.[/quote] I think the point is that the outstanding credit wasn't used to pay off the previous bill's total, which it cancelled exactly.

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="pjt33"]I can't believe that still no-one has pointed out that by not using hex-encoding in ASCII it can fit in 30 chars.[/quote] You can't believe? You must be new here..[/quote] Normally people are racing to propose workarounds even though the OP didn't ask for them.

[quote user="ubersoldat"][quote] WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate, NTLM [/quote] WWW-Authenticate? WTF? NTLM?!? OMFG!!! They state that it works locally and I'm afraid that they're mixing some Windows domain stuff with HTTP in here. [/quote] Indeed. Tell them to use Forms authentication rather than Windows authentication ...