Brown paper packages tied up with strings

[venta]

My favourite typo of the day (from RFC 2616):

"This media type UST NOT be used unless the sender knows that the recipient can arse it"

Why yes, thank you, I am really quite juvenile.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Although IETF is a reasonably reputable place to look for RFCs, it seems only their version has the typos in. They go on to waffle about lients handling ultiple-byteranges. The much more sensible W3C (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.4) disappointingly has the correct text.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

...making the W3C versions even easier to arse!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do hate technical writing which is ifficult to arse!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I remember a few weeks ago hearing one of our tough teenage boys paddling along on the sea singing to himself "brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things" as he went along and thought it was quite sweet considering he usually does things like murdering little plastic snowmen by slamming their heads in doors and starting talcum powder fights in the office. They all have their good points.

[lnr]

Aww!

[venta.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd managed to give myself a My Favourite Things earworm :( As you might guess from the RFC-reading, I'm writing code which handles sending and receiving messages over HTTP. The particular bit I'm doing deals with responses which have a header but no body, and I keep singing "Got No Body" to the tune of Ain't Nobody by Chaka Khan...