"The Web is broken and it's all your fault."

[Jordan]

TORONTO -- "The Web is broken and it's all your fault."

Those are the words that Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, said to kick off his keynote at the php|works conference under way here.

He said the current state of the Internet includes a litany of broken items, but with a little help from PHP there may well be some hope for the Web yet.

Lerdorf originally created PHP in 1995 and in addition to being a PHP developer at Yahoo, remains very active in the PHP community.

PHP by a variety of measures is likely the most popular scripting language in use on the Web today

"The Web is pretty much broken, we can all go home now," Lerdorf said somewhat sarcastically to the capacity crowd. "Luckily most people don't realize that it's broken."

Part of the reason Lerdorf considers the Web "broken" is that it is inherently insecure for a variety of reasons. One of those reasons sits at the feet of developers.

"You don't know that you have to filter user input," Lerdorf exclaimed.

Lerdorf advised PHP developers that nothing that comes across the wire is to be trusted. Header "stupidity," as Lerdorf referred to it in Apache HTTP Web server, can also be the root cause for the broken Web.

Then there is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has "stupidity" issues with character set detection, arbitrary header injection, host header spoofing and request splitting.

"IE is completely broken in so many ways," Lerdorf said.

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[TcM]

ROTFL! this **** is crazy!

[Lop]

Originally Posted by Tcm9669

ROTFL! this **** is crazy!

haha, I have to agree. WTF is this crap?

[TkTech]

Then there is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has "stupidity" issues with character set detection, arbitrary header injection, host header spoofing and request splitting.

"IE is completely broken in so many ways," Lerdorf said.

LOL he's my idol

[chaganlal1]

I find it quite ironic how he is trying to go against what he started. He must be trying to increase popularity and usage of PHP.

[TcM]

hmm yeah! he wants us to use PHP!!