Posted by Ivan Marsh on 12/18/06 19:54

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:20:23 +0000, Peter Fox wrote:

> Following on from Ivan Marsh's message. . .
>>On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:17:30 +0000, Peter Fox wrote:
>>
>>> Following on from Andrew's message. . .
>>>>We are using:
>>>>Apache v.1.3.37
>>>>PHP v.4.4.3
>>> And Management v 0.0
>>>
>>>
>>> Say that you asked on comp.lang.php and you were "told" you *had* to
>>> upgrade to Apache 2.x *and* PHP 5.x to deal with this problem ...
>>> (That should give the twerps the willies) ... Or they could just use
>>> the php extension and whenever they felt like making a decision would
>>> they let you know what it was.
>>
>>Been fired much?
>>
> In 35 years of computing I have never regretted telling people that it
> doesn't matter how much they dislike the facts : "2 plus 2 does not
> equal 3" The more they huff and puff the more they /are afraid/ of your
> knowledge. Don't work for those people - Full stop. Another thing you
> should remember is that good programmers don't get promoted, they move
> to a better job elsewhere. (Mediocre programmers get a job title 'team
> leader' and crap programmers become managers.)

I don't see anything factual about the suggestion you made. Even with
those upgrades the original issue would still exist.

The only thing to tell them is that processing .htm files as anything
other than HTML files is simply not right.

They need to un-break their webserver.

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