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Theoretically speaking, this is not really a solution but more like sweeping the dust under the carpet. Who knows which other corruption their stupid email client will perform, the customer should not get used to Marge's company fixing what the ISP is doing wrong.
More pragmatically, since to the customer it does indeed appear that the problem lies with Marge's password reset tool, I would have first explained where the real error is, and then offer to implement a "ISP compatibility feature" for a very small sum. If the sum is reasonable then everybody is happy and no wrong precedent is established.
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In case Davide hasn't said so already: clbuttic!
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Yeah great… any day now we’ll be reading an article where Marge’s successor complains about inheriting a codebase with a method that helpfully hardcodes the typo in ‘noeTimeToken’. Because fixing the typo itself would’ve just been too easy, right?
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Oh noes!
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thats what happens when you sanitize with a string replace instead of actually parsing the html. also super easy to get around:
window['oxnclick'.replaceAll('x', '')] = () => console.log("pwned")Admin
Due to the all-caps title, I thought this was going to be an error due to No-E-Time-Token.
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Isn't there also a problem if the token itself contains
on? Less likely if the firewall only checks foronat the beginning of a word, and not an issue if the token is a hex number, as is often the case.Admin
OK, this comment might be weird of me, but the other WTF is a German who doesn't speak English. The French arrogantly like to pretend they don't speak English when encountering American tourists, but they all learn English in school. The Germans are the same, but in my experience aren't jerks about it like the French.
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Which is not to say that they are actually good at speaking English, mind you, something that I've been reminded of from time to time during the 16 years that I've lived in France. (I don't speak French perfectly, mind you, but I'm better at French than a substantial fraction of my colleagues are at English.)
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That requires JS escalation to achieve JS escalation.
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I have a friend who was living in Tehran until recently and is now living and working in Germany. (I'm greatly relieved that he and his family are out of Iran given current events.) He doesn't speak a word of German, but he was an English major in college and he's doing fine there. He's working on speech recognition software and calls me on occasion to discuss English accents. When he learned I was working on flight simulators (the big kind on the hydraulics) one of his first questions was to ask if we did the work in python. I thought the question was quaint.
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Thanks for the unwarranted generalization. I'm French, my English is decent, and I've never in my life pretended to be unable to understand English. It's like saying all Americans are stupid. Sure, a lot of Americans are. But I would never generalize to all of them like you did here.
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TBH, the real WTF is not saying to the client "it's your own damn fault, we won't lift a finger to fix it".
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I'd think Argle's generalization kinda reflect their age. Part of the English adoption is mostly a generation gap issue. It's only the newer generations that not only learned English properly in school but also are increasingly seeing usage of it. Go one or two generations older and most french people I know would not know enough English to be proficient to use it, especially in a professional setting.
Refusing to talk to American tourists who obnoxiously expected anyone to know English was the de facto behavior in Paris in the 80s and 90s when I was there, and in this specific case I'd say the issue was often with the tourist behavior first hand.