D2 & Web-Framework

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Adam Ruppe" <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ivp9aq$jn4$1 at digitalmars.com...
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> (The difficulty I'm having there is I really want it to throw on
> not implemented or unknown stuff, but I also want it to be able to
> handle the kind of pure putrid shit you find on the open internet.

Yea, I've been having to deal with that on a big Haxe project I've been 
working on. I have a nice spiffy automatic error-reporting system, but it's 
proven surprisingly hard to find the right balance between what should be 
reported and what would just be noise.

Speaking of, apparently, HTTP's HEAD command is technically required by the 
HTTP spec to work right. But my system hasn't been handling it (I didn't 
even know about it before), and I never had *anyone* actually send such a 
request. But just recently I started getting one HEAD request every few days 
from an IP that've traced to Amazon WebSevices, which makes me wonder what 
the hell someone is even trying to do. The site is a demonstration for a 
memory-exercise program I've been tech lead on ( www.attentionworkout.com - 
pardon the annoying parts of the site, like the embedded sound, it was 
designed to be used in nursing homes ), so I can't imagine what the hell 
anyone at Amazon WebServices would be doing with it.

But, HEAD is technically required (though I have no idea what the real-world 
use-cases are), so I'm not quite sure what to do.


> Document has a flag to parse() for that - loose vs strict, but the
> css handler is half used for getElementsBySelector and half garbage
> so it doesn't have a consistent approach at all.)