No comic sans in httpd status pages

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  List:       openbsd-tech
  Subject:    [PATCH] No comic sans in httpd status pages
  From:       Peter Krantz 
  Date:       2016-02-19 16:40:33
  Message-ID: AAE82534-AF27-4CC9-B780-38F05596FE38 () peterkrantz ! se
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Hi!

For some reason the httpd status pages (e.g. 404) use the Comic Sans typeface. This patch removes comic sans and sets the typeface to the default sans-serif typeface of the client.

This lowers the number of people contacting website maintainers with typeface complaints bordering on harassment.

Cheers,

Peter

  ? no_comic_sans_in_404.patch
  Index: server_http.c
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  RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/httpd/server_http.c,v
  retrieving revision 1.105
  diff -r1.105 server_http.c
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   	    "sans-serif; }\n”

An elegant example of a troll trolling other trolls (and few more masterful than the OpenBSD developers), I'd reckon.

How long had Comic Sans been used on httpd status pages? (The mind reels…)

Since it was released in 5.8, I believe.

OpenBSD projects tend to use Comic Sans as a matter of course as a ward against hipsters[1].

[1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.htm...