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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:46:44 JST Aral Balkan

   I do wonder sometimes how many mainstream web sites are just loosely held together with the digital equivalent of sellotape…

   “C:\Booking System\UpdatedSunwayCode”, you say 👀

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:50:42 JST Aral Balkan

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     To be fair, I don’t know how anyone can run a web site on a Windows machine and sleep well at night.

     I mean, I’m not an anxious person but if anything was to give me random panic attacks in the middle of the night…

     (As far as I’m concerned, Windows belongs safely trapped in a VM where it can’t harm itself or anything else and you boot it up whenever you need to test something because you don’t want to abandon the poor souls forced into using it for one reason or other… and that’s about it.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:56:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     (Also, the fact I’m writing about an error on a travel web site instead of continuing to search for a trip probably explains why we haven‘t had a proper holiday in ages again.)

     🙊

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:57:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Emma

     @ipg Yep. Major travel web site here in Ireland.

   • Emma (ipg@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 19:57:21 JST Emma

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     @aral worse, an outdated ASP.NET web server on a Windows machine, on a sensitive (i assume) production website...

   • Rob Hogan (mwenge@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:53:10 JST Rob Hogan

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     @aral Yikes, it's still happening when you land on the site directly. UpdatedSunwayCode indeed!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:53:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Rob Hogan

     @mwenge Just sent them an email with the link to forward to their web team *smh* :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:54:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Zac

     @lolbat That should be the default behaviour for any web platform/framework but who knows 🤷♂️

   • Zac (lolbat@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:54:08 JST Zac

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     @aral Why do devs ship ASP apps that report details like that? Can't you reroute to an error page that doesn't do that on a production server?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 19:08:21 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:

     @carcosa Programming language? Sounds complicated :)

   • Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs: (carcosa@emacs.ch)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 19:08:22 JST Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:

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     @aral Eh. I'm not a Windows fan, but that's a null pointer exception, one of the most common types of errors in mainstream programming languages, not something Windows specific. I'd point the finger at the language (C#) more than the platform it's running on.

     The real incompetence here is not having a custom error screen on public facing code. The path reveal is for where it was compiled, not where it's running, fwiw.