RTFLF - Read the Expletive Log File
A buddy of mine and I had a nice slap in the face yesterday. I was helping him deploy an ADO.NET Data Service to a large company's staging server and we were seeing REALLY odd behavior. We'd request something like /myservice.svc and get a 404. But we could request /myservice.svc/Stuff or /myservice.svc/?metadata. We settled in to debug this. We thought we were "getting down to basics." You know, you've done this. The conversation goes something like: "Ok, people, what's the definition of insanity? Trying the same thing and expecting a different result." "Right...let's challenge all our assumptions. Let's start from scratch. Can get Hello World working?" "What's the ACLs on
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