[Tilesathome] t at h server next generation

[spaetz]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Henry Loenwind wrote:
> That is what I was referring to. For a public(!) beta test it is just a 
> no-go when the installation instructions are wrong. Then came the return 
> code for "unknown user" (different that the old server, and so not 
> displayed by the client)

The return code for wrong authorization should be the same as in the old client. Just the fact that I hadn't bullet proofed the name parsing, led to an error.

>  > On the issue of authentication, do you have a special char in your 
> username like an @-sign or so? It should work theoretically, but I am 
> not sure as I can only create so many test accounts on the OSM server...
> 
> Nothing weird, my display name is just "Henry Loenwind" ;-)

Ahh, spaces would have been such "weird chars" :-).
 
> However, I'm a Software Architect, and I get to review source code every 
> day. With time, you'll get to know types of bugs, and I assure you, the 
> type "I assumed I could re-use that return value without checking it at 
> all" is one of the worst*...

Yep, that is perhaps one of the reasons why I don't earn my living by writing software :-).

spaetz