> 2. Dug deep to find a little bug in the HttpRequest parsing that dear
> Brent mistakenly introduced :) and fixed it. Funky enough we don't want
> exceptions down there - they are swallowed hard.

Just to get completely of topic, why are exceptions bad "down there" and
what does "swallowed hard" mean? 
I only ask because I am playing with Exceptions and would like the benefit
of people's views and experience.

Russell