Mike's sudden inspirations - WTF

WebSockets Handshake non HTTP conforming?

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:16:00 +0200

Update:

Just found a revelatory discussion. The summary of Bjoern Hoehrmann is especially interesting with regards to that topic.

While skimming through the new HTML5 WebSocket draft, I noticed the following exemplar HTTP message demonstrating the client message of a WebSocket handshake:


        GET /demo HTTP/1.1
        Host: example.com
        Connection: Upgrade
        Sec-WebSocket-Key2: 12998 5 Y3 1  .P00
        Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: sample
        Upgrade: WebSocket
        Sec-WebSocket-Key1: 4 @1  46546xW%0l 1 5
        Origin: http://example.com

        ^n:ds[4U

To me this looks non conforming to the HTTP spec due to the lack of an indicator that the request contains a message body.

Quoting the 4th paragraph of section 4.3 of RFC2616:

The presence of a message-body in a request is signaled by the inclusion of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header field in the request's message-headers. A message-body MUST NOT be included in a request if the specification of the request method (section 5.1.1) does not allow sending an entity-body in requests. A server SHOULD read and forward a message-body on any request; if the request method does not include defined semantics for an entity-body, then the message-body SHOULD be ignored when handling the request.

Huh?

PHP commandline highlighter

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:29:16 +0200

Just chewed up a command line highlighter for php code.
It's hacky, but it fullfills my needs.

Cheers-

I tried to post a comment at the regex chanllenge on ubuntu-tutorials.com

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:30:22 +0100

...but somehow managed to not get through, so here's my attempt:


awk -v RS="[\n ,]+" '{print}' < u.txt

See http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/17/regex-challenge/

Definitely

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:25:00 +0200

Well, it's this time in one's life, you know...

I'm single again, and I'm looking for a radical change in my life.

I'm going to abandon being self-employed and looking for a PHP/HTTP/CURL related job.

Some info about me, even in german.

nuff!

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Tue, 22 May 2007 10:42:00 +0200

I cancelled my German PHP-Magazine subscription last fall. I even got a cancellation confirmation letter on behalf of them on 10/10/2006.

The funny journey began shortly after. I got each 2007 issue twice, last month an issue of the dot-net magazine and now again the 04.07 issue of the PHP magazine. The subscription was supposed to end with issue 03.07.

I already wrote mails to abo-at-phpmagazin.de and info-at-software-support.biz, without response.

Now I'm sitting here--quite puzzled--with issue 04.07 and am looking forward to my 2007 subscription invoice... hm... now I wonder if it will be for the dot-net or the PHP magazine :-/

New development page

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sat, 19 May 2007 19:45:00 +0200

I've finally created the basement for a development homepage, where I'll be hosting all my projects.

Drupal serves as the CMS, and I'm pondering moving my s9y--which sucks--blog over to this site. It seems that there'd be everything I needed.

Let's see if I get the menu for the blog right...

Phar vs World

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:30:00 +0200

Recent discussions about inclusion of pecl/phar into the core distribution shows again that we are missing a defined process of handling additions to the PHP main distibution. How many people are really reading through all mails of 100+ message threads?

It's going to be a chaos. Always. Once a developer has got his new, shiny and soon-to-be-world-dominating extension into the core, he'll be a even stronger advocator of the "no-new-extensions" camp. Not to disrespect any work, but this is pure rivalism, masculine--really!

The idea of moving extensions from core to pecl is honorous, but we all know the current problems of this ideology.

Many people have asked me when pecl/http will be included in the main distribution. My answer is short and simple: "Never" (I usually add a tiny sentence, but that's nothing encouraging either).

Ah... and please do me a favour: rather keep your comments to yourself (...or toss it into the nonsense thread@internals).

Two pitfalls in one afternoon

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Thu, 03 May 2007 17:03:00 +0200

This is not my day.

<quote url="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-search.html">
words that are present in more than 50% of the rows are considered common and do not match
</quote>

RTFM!

Apache MultiViews are evil

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:49:00 +0200

Suppose you've got a similar setup to:


RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule .* - [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^network/?(\w+)?$ network.php?path=$1

Apache will expand e.g. "network/foo/bar" to "network.php/foo/bar" which won't be expanded to "network.php?f=" because it --of course-- exists (RewriteCond -f).

Evil!

JFC

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:47:13 +0200

Now I'll tell you why S9Y sucks that much.

Because some moron had the idea to store the application path in the database! So, everything blows up if you change the path. Funny eh? I guess I spent half an hour grep'ing the source until I had a look into the db.

Unbelievable.

Konquerors ViewMode Buttons

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:51:00 +0200

If you, after upgrading to Dapper Drake, are missing your beloved ViewMode Buttons in Konqueror, locate

/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile\
/default/share/apps/konqueror/konq-kubuntu.rc

and add the following ToolBar node:

<ToolBar newline="false" hidden="false" name="viewModeToolBar" >
  <text>ViewMode Toolbar</text>
  <ActionList name="viewmode_toolbar" />
</ToolBar>

Yes, you guessed, this drove me mad

Disabled Trackbacks

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sun, 28 May 2006 18:08:14 +0200

I just disabeld trackbacks for this blog.

They just filled my INBOX and DB.

Obviously...

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:24:36 +0100

...morons don't die off

Upgraded, finally

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:24:40 +0100

Yessir! I finally managed to upgrade s9y. It was quite a PITA because I had to go through all releases from 0.6 to 0.9, because it didn't work in one jump...

Could be that I'll be blogging more from now on.. (yeah, sounds like a threat, eh?)

Visited Countries/US States

nospam@example.com (Mike) — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 13:30:22 +0100

In another life, I've quite been coming around...

Around the World

Around Northern America

via create your own visited country map at world66