Oh, is that all?

[elfs]

A comment I made this morning, preserved for antiquity:

"Y'know, it's just: copy the query string, systematically go along it chopping out the '&' while remembering where the string starts, lexgraphically sorting the string (by the way, are you supposed to do the lexgraphical sort after it's been unescaped? (in which you case you'll get syntactically meaningless (not that we care for signature purposes) strings like equation=x=7) in which case the pain in the ass quotient goes up a notch) using QSort, then re-assembling the query info, escaping it, and assembling it with METHOD, SCHEME, HOSTINFO, and the other two data whose names I can't recall because they haven't even dropped onto my radar yet.

Because, y'know, strings like equation%3Dx%253D7 just kinda rock my world."

Comments

[orcaarrow.livejournal.com]

I'm a second generation programmer. My dad was a programmer for the USAF for 20+ years. I started going to school for it, but I never did much more than Pascal and some basic HTML programming.

Reading your post made me realize just out dense I truly am. I have no frame of reference to even being to understand what you're doing.

The Gods and Goddesses bless you because if I had to do it myself i'd be lost.

Thanks!

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm having a "polite discussion" with the writers of the Open Authentication protocol about implementing it for Apache, and questioning the wording of some of the rules. The query (all the stuff after the ?) in a URL is considered part of the "signature," but there are special rules for turning it into the "signature," and I'm trying to figure out what those rules are.

It's not a big deal, but it's really annoying to not know when you're trying to write the implementation. I'd like to write it just once.

[orcaarrow.livejournal.com]

Great fun!

I wish I could say I don't understand the problem, but I work for a state agency. So, I'm very familiar with not knowing what the rules are but being expected to follow them.

I wish you the best of luck.

[xengar.livejournal.com]

I'm also a second gen programmer and about the same age as orcaarrow, although my father was in the army so I guess the similarity stops there :) I have enough more personal knowledge of coding to understand your initial post now that I have some context, but I likewise thank you and those like you for taking care of these problems. I don't have what it takes to fight my way through something like that; by the time I was done the world would have move on to a different protocol and my work would be obsolete.

As he said, Thanks!

[bolindbergh]

So have they considered the treatment of semicolons?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Blissfully irrelevant!

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Well, all you've gotta do is go into QB, pull up a mini report to see what code was entered last month (and make sure it's not a duplicate entry), then pull up "bill" and fill in the vendor. Make sure everything has been approved first and you've got the right pay rate, because it's not always pre-entered. Then before closing out you have to switch over to the asset-inventory tab and enter the data there, yes there's some duplication because there're some fields that don't repeat in each view. When you're all done with the entries you need to generate an A/P aging report, print it out, and make recommendations on what to pay, then forward it to M who will tell you which ones we have money for. That's just the first step.

- being Admin geeky 'cause this is one of those posts that make my eyes cross. ;p