The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

No Letters Allowed!

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2011-03-28

"The data validation requirements for a telephone number are dead simple," writes Chris M., "Just the numbers and that's it. The user can enter their numbers with dashes, brackets, parens, whatever. Only the numbers should be saved."

"You would think that filtering out the non-numeric characters should be a simple thing to do with regluar expressions or heck, even walking the string would be feasible."

169 comments - Last comment @ 2011-04-15

Only Spicy Food Gives Me an Explosive Gain

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2011-03-25

“One of our developers (who has since left) scoured the internet and grabbed every single Spam Assassin rule that he could find,” writes Vivin P., “Even the weird ones.”

97 comments - Last comment @ 2011-03-31

A Spoonful of Sugar

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2011-03-16

John S. was doing some work on the search feature of a client's website when he noticed that he would receive a 500 Server Error if he tested against the API with an empty string.

This struck John as being pretty strange since not only had the search feature had been in place for years, but also, he could go to the search page, click on the "Search" button without entering anything and receive an "Item Not Found" response.

250 comments - Last comment @ 2011-03-27