I'm sorry if you're out there Mike, but I had to exploit this one a bit and have some fun with it (at your expense). On November 12th, Mike posted the following after tirelessly searching for information about "crackers":
OK, go to www.aspfaq.com, and search for "cookies." I got 5 hits, the second was #2058 "How do I check for enabled cookies..." That page has two examples, cookietest and cookietest2: if request.Crackers("enabled")="1" then response.write("cookies are enabled") else response.write("cookies are not enabled") end if Yet if you search for the term "crackers," nothing is found. |
As it turns out, Mike is running cookie-blocking software called
Proxomitron -- if you have this software installed, and you are viewing code samples on the web, you might be surprised to see references to objects like 'Request.Crackers' and 'Response.Crackers'. Fact is, this software is simply intercepting the HTML that comes into your browser, and replacing all instances of '.cookies' with '.crackers' ...
So, if you go to
Oreo.com, you might be a little confused when you see the following recipe:
SURPRISE OREO TUNNEL CAKE The tunnel inside this angel food cake is filled with chocolate pudding, finished with Oreo crackers and chilled to create a surprising dessert course. |
Of course, this won't happen, but I wanted to embellish the story a little bit. Some people were a little mean, and called Mike "crackers" in response. A little confused, and understandably so, but not crackers. In any case, it was quite funny -- and I hope nobody is disgruntled about me sharing it here. After all, it could have happened to you.