[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12868: General Settings Page Needs Error Checking

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#12868: General Settings Page Needs Error Checking
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 Reporter:  Josh Jones             |        Owner:  technosailor
     Type:  defect (bug)           |       Status:  closed      
 Priority:  high                   |    Milestone:  3.0         
Component:  Administration         |      Version:  2.9.2       
 Severity:  major                  |   Resolution:  fixed       
 Keywords:  has-patch ux-feedback  |  
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Comment(by raymor):

 It's quite unfortunate that the WP devs see fit to break
 everything but the simplest little site in order to pander to
 the clueless. This kind of improper use of fully qualified
 URLs breaks authentication, load balancing, cookies, and
 creates lots of other subtle little bugs.

 I had hoped fully qualified URL abuse was going to stop around
 the time of HTML 3.2, when designers and engineers realized how
 many problems are caused by this kind of improper use of FQ URLs,
 but thirteen years later the WordPress team is still making the
 same mistakes that we all thought we had learned from decades ago.

 I guess we can look forward to user agent based browser sniffing
 in WP next, and perhaps some ActiveX controls.

 Perhaps what's needed is a Wordpress Enterprise fork, and let the
 mainline Wordpress pander to the lowest common denominator, which
 seems to be the trend, and introduce "cool" new features without
 regard for established standards and how many professional sites
 are broken by these spontaneous changes.  The Enterprise version
 could be aimed at true professionals and follow standards, and
 avoid breaking compatibility with established protocols.

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