Talkin' with Benjy about debugging PHP scripts that write custom headers:

Benjy: okay, this is a freaky bug. gah
Kevin: Yich. Headers weren't meant for mortal men like us.
Benjy: yeah - headers feel like I'm getting "low level"
Benjy: also, headers are REALLLY FUCKING HARD to debug
Kevin: Totally. Apache and PHP try to handle it all for you..
Kevin: Maybe you need a nph-type file.. Ugh.
Kevin: Nevermind..
Benjy: nph?
Kevin: 'non-parsed-headers'
Benjy: I don't even want to know
Kevin: Time was that you could prepend 'nph' to a cgi's name, like nphslideshow.cgi' and apache would know not to handle headers for you.
Kevin: Dark ages, man...
Kevin: That's back when, if you wanted an animated graphic, you could make an nph cgi that would write the image, then write another image, and another, to the same image spot.
Kevin: "Server-push" at it's most bare.
Benjy: dude, that's... ew
Kevin: It was sooo messy.
Kevin: But then, it only had to work on Netscape 2...
Kevin: I suddenly feel so old...

Good times, good times...