Posts Tagged ‘fail’

WordPress SSL redirect failure

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

I have had so many problems managing the wordpress software, it’s ridiculous. If I could find a decent replacement, I’d move everyone over, but this appears to be the best out there. It reminds me of the time when all web browsers sucked and all email clients sucked. The sad thing is, WordPress used to be really solid; now every new version feels a bit more degraded than the last. Perhaps I’ll let them blame it on using PHP. ;-) Enjoy:1

$ curl -k -I https://brainsik.theory.org/.:./wp-login.php
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:08:18 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.9
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6-2ubuntu4.1
Location: https://brainsik.theory.org/.:./wp-login.php
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  1. HINT: Compare the URL I requested, and the one I was redirected to.

Forbidden Twitter

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

On most sites I visit, error pages are infrequent. On Twitter, problems are so common the error pages have their own cultural currency. Sadly, I still regularly hit errors without such soothing imagery:

403 Twitter