Microsoft to receive the annual award for the funniest bug

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Keep looking for that headline! The reason is simple, and you will agree ( hopefully ) that this is indeed a freaking funny bug description. The bug itself is funny, too. And I just don’t understand why, but let the details rest aside, and let’s enjoy it:

A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in Internet Explorer 7

You can read find that bug in the Knowledge Base. This post features nothing else but this bold bug description, so here’s my question, to be answered in the comment: what do you think was the code that caused this bug looking like? Any languages ( even brainfuck! ) welcome..

Edit: I stumbled upon a video demonstrating that by getting the square root of 4 and subtracting 2 from the result, the calculator.. outputs some rather unique result. Any explanation here? Try it, works in any Windows version. Buggy times.

  • http://mumpitz.p-shuttle.de Johannes

    Note that this bug will only occur when moon is waning and the user wears a red sweater.
    Be also aware about known Cookie-problems involving miss-spelled adverbs(only the ones ending with a ‘r’ character), as well as attributes containing a republican presidents’ name (will mess up your bookmarks at next start).
    As a principal, pet names should never be used in Cookies(leading to undefined behaviour since IE4).

  • http://momo.brauchtman.net momo

    I’m still stuck in trying to understand the code leading to that bug.. any ideas?