The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Silverhill · 2011-02-10 Reply Admin

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Silverhill · 2011-02-10 Reply Admin

Peter:
Silverhill:
So, whether or not the code contains " >", do the replace operation? Just to make real sure, I guess.
Um, no. Read the expression again, paying careful attention to where the parenthesis after "!" is closed.

Oops! Proper parenthesis parsing prevents potential pitfalls.... Thanx for the catch, Peter.

2011-02-10 Reply Admin

Silverhill:
Peter:
Silverhill:
So, whether or not the code contains " >", do the replace operation? Just to make real sure, I guess.
Um, no. Read the expression again, paying careful attention to where the parenthesis after "!" is closed.
Oops! Proper parenthesis parsing prevents potential pitfalls.... Thanx for the catch, Peter.

Glad to be of service ;)

Severity One · 2011-02-11 Reply Admin

frits:

Clearly they've missed a few:

html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");
html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");

html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong><\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");

html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong><\strong><\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");

Given the nature of this site, don't you think it would have been a better idea to use forward slashes instead of backslashes? They use the slashes consistently correctly; you use it consistently incorrectly.
You develop in VB, too?

2011-02-11 Reply Admin

frits:
Anonymous:
hoodaticus:
Nagesh:
hoodaticus:
Nagesh:
hoodaticus:
Nagesh:
Christopher:
hoodaticus:
TRWTF is that there is no object model for HTML documents. I think I will write one and call it XMLDOM.

I'm assuming you are an idiot, in the most polite sense.

http://www.w3schools.com/HTMLDOM/dom_intro.asp

Or maybe you are completely aware of this, and were funny or sarcastic, and I missed it. That's how seriously I take you.

Either way... I still think you are am idiot.

He's mostly a troll.
You're a towel!

Now you're confusing Arabs with Indians. What's next?
Just let me get high. Then I'll remember the difference between Arabs and Indians.

Getting high is a means of escape. All of this is just instant gratification. Do not believe in instant gratification. It is bad for your soul.
I was actually quoting or paraphrasing South Park the whole time I was talking to you.
5545... 554522... 5545225654

Yeah! Thats the tune to Funky Town!
EEDE BA#A EGE

Much to my annoyance, it's not actually possible to play the tune to Funky Town on a touch-tone phone. I've been trying for a good 20 minutes now and all I've managed to do is accidentally order a pizza.

frits · 2011-02-11 Reply Admin

Severity One:
frits:
Clearly they've missed a few:
html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");
html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");

html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong><\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");

html = html.Replace(" "");
html = html.Replace("<\strong><\strong><\strong><\strong><\strong> "<\strong>");
. Given the nature of this site, don't you think it would have been a better idea to use forward slashes instead of backslashes? They use the slashes consistently correctly; you use it consistently incorrectly.
You develop in VB, too?

Mostly C derivatives, thanks for asking. It was a copy-pasta mistake, so sue me.

xtremezone · 2011-02-11 Reply Admin

gallier2:
Bzzzt, wrong. < is required to be replaced by a character entity, > not.

I ... I didn't know. :'(

Thanks for pointing that out. :)

2011-02-11 Reply Admin

xtremezone:
gallier2:
Bzzzt, wrong. < is required to be replaced by a character entity, > not.
I ... I didn't know. :'(
Thanks for pointing that out. :)

If I hadn't got such a document last wednesday containing untransformed >, I would not have known either. It happened that I just checked the w3c site on that day.

2011-02-11 Reply Admin

while(true) way to go!

well but cleaning html is really a bitch unless you do document.firstChild.innerText()

2011-02-12 Reply Admin

Perhaps it uses to describe some undo operation.

2011-02-12 Reply Admin

Perhaps it uses to describe some undo operation.

hoodaticus · 2011-02-13 Reply Admin

Luiz Felipe:
Perhaps it uses to describe some undo operation.

I think it may be a side-effect of that, actually. MS almost certainly uses command pattern in Office. Maybe that mindset leaked into the serialization format.

2011-02-13 Reply Admin

nobulate:
not frits at all:
Seth:
Gotta love the double checking nature even at the most elementary level:
(html.Contains(" >") || html.Contains(" >")
I'm sure they thought of the possibility of the value of the HTML string changing on another thread
I'm sure this was a failed copy/paste and should have been:
(html.Contains(" >") || html.Contains("< ")
I mean, who hasn't done something like this ?
Ha, I see what you did there. Clever.

Refactored to catch all scenarios:
if (!(html.Contains(" >") || html.Contains(" >"))) 
&& if ((html.Contains(" >") == false || (html.Contains(" >") == true) || (html.Contains(" >") == FILE_NOT_FOUND))

You forgot one. FTFY.

2011-02-16 Reply Admin

Hmm. Let me guess that we found this gem of code when it there were either complaints about performance on the servers or it hit an infinite loop.

"\s*" or set the ignore whitespace flag ftw... but there are so many other problems. with everything. Programming isn't like doodling notes in you notebook.

2011-02-16 Reply Admin

So basically there's 5 tags they want to remove and 5 attributes types. And they don't want white space created by div or P tags. Wow, these programmers are soo stupid. They left out thousands of combinations. There could easily be another 10,000+ lines of code for this.

2011-02-16 Reply Admin

le stuff:
Power Troll:
Wasn't perl created for doing stuff like this?
"for doing stuff" seems unnecessary...

so you think: "Wasn't perl created like this?"

lol

2011-02-16 Reply Admin

The center cannot hold!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

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