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Not a semi-colon but - Setting up a GPO to push Microsoft updates to clients in an AD domain, I spent ~8 hours debugging why the clients couldn't connect to th
by reptation 7y ago
Not a semi-colon but -
Setting up a GPO to push Microsoft updates to clients in an AD domain, I spent ~8 hours debugging why the clients couldn't connect to the WSUS server. It turned out that there was trailing whitespace in the server URL text field that was getting parsed.
As a side note, this type of story IMO doesn't actually play that well in interview situations.
- b3lvedere 7y agoEvery time i need to copy/paste some important text into something, i run it through notepad so it kills all the (meta)code that may be hidden deep inside the text. I know it may not kill the whitespaces, but it's usually the first thing i do when i get copy/paste crap like that.
- rurounijones 7y agoEverytime I receive input from a human source I remove leading and trailing whitespace. (I have never had a situation where it was needed) Far too many instances of copy/pastes including those bloody things.