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@electrineer with a Chinese/Japanese key
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@jiraTicket
He had wonderful names.
An Interface was a Kontrakt,
an wrapper was a Huelse,
an class was a Klasse,
...
Yeah. The code base was a nightmare. -
Oh, so just full on german translations everywhere, not just in unique cases.
Just curious, that 'Geräte-Art' header - was that written plainly as something like SetHeader('Geräte-Art') or was it a case when he normally tried to asciify his german, but forgot since it was something like SetHeader(GetStuff())? -
@jiraTicket nah. It was Set header(Geräte-Art)...
We had an internal discussion later and many devs were baffled that UTF-8 isn't "common" in HTTP...
But in his case, I must admit that I was happy that he left the company. Guy had more than a few nuts loose.
Crazy... Hm, that could qualify for a *lot*.
Craziest. Probably misusage or rather "brain damaged" knowledge about HTTP.
I've seen a lot of wild things when devs start poking standards, but the tip of the iceberg was someone trying to use UTF-8 in headers...
You might have guessed it - German umlauts. :(
Coz yeah. Fucktard loved writing everything in german, so why not write custom header names in german.
The fun thing is: It *can* work, though the usual sane thing is to keep it in ASCII range for the obvious reason that using UTF-8 (or ISO-8859-1, which is *not* ASCII) is a gamble you gonna loose.
The fun game was that after putting in a much needed load balancer between services for monitoring / scaling etc suddenly *something* seemed off.
It took me 2 days and a lot of Wireshark hoola hooping to find out why, cause the header was used for device detection aka wether it's a bot or not. Or in the german term the dev used: "Geräte-Art".
As the fallback was to assume a bot, but only rate limit based on IP, only few managed to achieve the necessary rate limit to get blocked.
So when I say *something* seemed off, I really mean a spooky kind of "sometimes IP blocked for seemingly no reason at all".
Fun stuff. The dev btw germanized everything. Untangling the code base was a lot of non fun. -.-
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