[ABE.pm] beer good. php bad.

[Ted Fiedler]

Im in - I could use some beer. Im starting to delve into Ruby and may
have another language to curse by then.

Ted

On 11/28/06, Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-perl-abe at lists.manxome.org> wrote:
>
> Seriously, I cannot stress enough how obnoxious today's PHP problems were.
> Basically, something was being passed a string, in a cookie, with "+" in it,
> and PHP decided, somewhere along the way, to URI decode that into a space.
> Then, since the string was already encoded in some native format (which
> had generated the plus to begin with) it could no longer be decoded.  Result?
> Some unknown percentage of users couldn't log in to Squirrelmail.
>
> It took me hours to find the problem (way longer than it should have, in
> retrospect), but I think it solved another long-standing bug, so... hooray!
>
> It's days like this that remind me of a simple fact of life:  beer good, PHP
> bad.
>
> To celebrate how good beer is, let's grab some beers on Wednesday, December 6,
> a week from tomorrow.  Hopefully by then I'll have recovered and will no longer
> feel the need to badmouth PHP, especially if Faber is there.
>
> Now, back to optimizing memory usage!
>
> --
> rjbs
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