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That is possibly the best Error'd I've seen for a while. +1 Would laugh again.
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At first I thought it could be a Google Translate error, but now I'm wondering if that message isn't just a line of text entered by a user when creating a Google Form.
Technically not an Error'd, more of an external @accalia.
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Could be, maybe, I guess. In any case, it made me actually laugh, which is more than most Error'ds do.
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Shorry for ruining your moment.
Filed under: Sic
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I regret to inform the authors that they have erred in their statements.
HTTP 401:
HTTP 403:
Therefore the premise stated in the article is incorrect, as the server is not stating login is required to logout, but rather that you are successfully logged in, but aren't allowed to view the page despite that. It is a fine detail, but an important one that the authors apparently missed. Wise users may note, however, that it is possible that the software in use, Disqus, has improperly placed a 403 where a 401 should have been used. This mistake, which I have seen in person too many times, is common amongst those who do not read the appropriate RFCs or reference materials prior to designing a web application. While this is a remote possibility, I still put forth that the article as stated misrepresents the facts and the meaning of HTTP 403. In short, the article, and likely the submitter himself, have failed to understand the difference between authorization and authentication. I state that this error should be rectified given the information we have now and invite any others to investigate further if Disqus is improperly using its status codes.
Filed Under: :pendant: :badger: trolling
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Or just caused by someone hit the 'H' key of keyboard accidentially.
Say, on workman keyboard layout, 'S' is near 'H' key. Maybe there is keyboard layout where 'E' is also near 'H'.
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Must be the Canadian keyboard.
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Sounds legit...
Filed under: A common typo
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A drunk user at that.
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I just assumed it was Sean Connery day
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If it's Discourse, you'd never see that error, because you can't log out. Also jellypotato etc.
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Two more likely explainations are:
But yes, there are those who insist their ideas are better than RFC
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Well of course. It's only a request for comments, after all.
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That's what I had figured.
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How would you pronounce an 'h' before a 'd'?
If I try one more time my kids will think I'm losing it.
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Silly developers, not reading lengthy boring documents to find out which arbitrary code they should use. Don't they know that millions of applications crash every year due to using HTTP code 403 instead of 401?
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You're still around?!
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Respondents should NOT see the page, but I did, unfortunately, because the word "Sesstion" hurts my eyes.
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FTFY :rofl:
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I can think of at least one :wink:
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Well, if you've seen / heard something that you shouldn't have, I think there is only one course of action left open to Them®
It will be messy, but quick. RIP
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First of all, I could see it Photoshop saying something like "Unable to open .psd files" but no, it not only knows it can't open the file, but it has steps included so it can say it is an "Adobe Photoshop file" it can't open. So they went to all that trouble and they can't say, "...because the file is corrupt"?
Anyway.
I had a conjecture that some broken code was replacing all "s" by "sh". But the "esd" at the end blew that conjecture all to pieces...
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You know the description of the file type comes from the OS not Photoshop, right?
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It is just an Error'd article…
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I can't be pendantic on WTDWTF anymore? :cry:
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Of course you can! It just won't stop the rest of us from also being pendantic…
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I find it hard to believe that Disqus is directly serving HTML files from the httpd process, instead of using an application server to handle their requests.
The explanation I find most likely is that they simply have a generic layer that verifies the authentication for marked paths/controller methods, the developer implementing /logout marked it as requiring a minimum authorization level of a basic user (since you can't logout anonymous users), and so the generic layer returned Forbidden since the user did not have that level.
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In the standard Russian keyboard layout (probably true of other non-Latin alphabets as well) very common letter pairs seem to be close to one another, e.g. пр, вы, он. Perhaps this was typed on a Canadian keyboard where E and H are next to one another. :confused:
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You forgot the dickweed part.
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Meh. Wasn't trying too hard...
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Maybe the Crotian keyboard ;)
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Humm... no. :stuck_out_tongue:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/goglobal/keyboards/kbdcr.html
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Paging @Onyx...
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Probably true for any layout which was developed after typewriter entry speed restrictions were no longer worth a serious consideration.
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I'm not 100% convinced of the explanation for qwertyuiop being collision avoidance. A different explanation I heard was so that a design patent could be issued, preventing other manufacturers from using the same keyboard layout even if they invented a typewriter that did not infringe on the functional patents.
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Quick skimming of wiki article seems to confirm my previous recollection that the main reason for QWERTY was jam avoidance.
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Not entire uncontroversial that, though.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-the-legend-of-the-qwerty-keyboard-49863249/?no-ist
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The only way to be sure with Wikipedia is to ignore the article and check the references. And even then be very careful because some editors plant fake articles on other sites so they can reference them. I find with Wikipedia that the more I know about a subject the less I tend to agree with the article on it, and I extrapolate from there.