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Posted by: jerry ackeman (Saturday 7 February 2004, 8:05 PM)

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Classwork? Maybe you should go back to school, .htaccess is used for a variety of purposes and those that develop for this type of functionality and those that currently use and pass "passwords" in the URL have been left with hours and in many cases days of wasted effort in resolving the issue. Microsoft should develop a process of contacting those that depend upon it prior to just throwing out an automatic update.
If you think this was trivial, subtract the money I spent in support and development costs on this single issue out of YOUR paycheck and you can save the time in school learning this lesson -get it?

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