Tag: wayback machine
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Wayback Machine rescues pytest posts
I’ve been curious about how pytest‘s assertion rewriting works. (As someone used to Abseil’s testing framework, the usage of bare asserts was a shock.) I was happy to come across a Reddit post: “How does pytest work?”. Unfortunately, the site it points to, pythoninsight.com, seems to be mostly dead. Luckily, the wonderful Wayback Machine has…
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Snooping on Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine bot
I’m reading Jon Duckett’s “PHP & MYSQL” and got up to a section where he discusses $_SERVER, which contains info on HTTP headers, etc. I thought it might be fun to see what Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine bot looks like in terms of this. So, here’s my take on dumping parts of $_SERVER: https://github.com/fadend/server-vars-php/blob/main/server_vars.php. Hopefully…