The Hidden World of HTTP
One of the things I’m going to miss about working in Mac OS X Integration is having co-workers crazy and creative enough to actually write a spider to crawl the web in search of unusual (and often humorous) HTTP headers. As it happens, our own Andrew Wooster recently completed just such a survey, and the results are pretty amusing. My personal favorite excerpt from Andrew’s post is about the headers returned by the Democratic Party’s web server:
The Democrats called, they want you to know they found their sense of humor:
X-Dubya: You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
Make sure to hit it a few times for optimum goodness:
X-Dubya: We’re in for a long struggle, and I think Texans understand that. And so do Americans.
X-Dubya: Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.
X-Dubya: We’re making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.
X-Dubya: Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
See more over at Andrew’s site.
August 8th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
If you want a Mac OS X screen saver that displays a bunch of these, look no further:
http://don.yacktman.org/blog/archives/2005/05/25/dubyaspeex