I fixed the bug that disallowed people to post comments. It turned out that two things were causing this. First of all, the machine purportedly running the web server for our department seemingly forwards request to another machine, causing the WordPress stored root to differ from the actual root. In some way, this ensures that the $_POST array is quite empty. Second, in the php file processing the comments, somebody seems to have thought that the $_POST entries were available as globals. Which should never be the case.
So feel free to fill my hard drive space up with your witty, hilarious, or outright hostile comments.
Tags: programming, rant