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bug in movable type

Just discovered a bug in the blog engine: If you type var/ in the body of a blog post, you will get a quite funny

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi on this server.

The same occurs also with cgi-bin/, by the way...

Took me a few seconds to figure out what actually provoked the error. But with splitting it in halfs, it's not as cumbersome: First half = no error? Then look in the second half. Here again, split in halfs, and test one. And so on.

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