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Arthur Bergman wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2004, at 08:20, Ann Barcomb wrote:
> >Specifically, any message which contains an unclosed right paran
> >will fail to send. So 'hey there :)' gives the unhelpful error
> >'Message failed in sending'.
[...]
> Cell phone software seems to be extremely flakey and scary, we just had
> to reorder the order of Cookies and Content-Length in our response
> header to get the J2ME app to pick up the Content-Length. Here too, the
> only explanations I can come up with are rather scary and makes my
> blood boil.
Work for one of the companies concerned for a while and you'll come
to see this sort of thing as being mere endearing quirks.
Where you ought to get really scared is when the same people start
writing e-commerce applications.
--
"They've won the client but no one likes using their servers.
Because they're shit." -- Jeremy Allison on Microsoft in El Reg
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