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Yet more URL manipulation mischief

Published Wednesday 20th February 2008 07:02 GMT

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Can you trust basic shoddy programming? 

By Christian
Posted Wednesday 20th February 2008 09:15 GMT
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This is a basic mistake, done by amateurs. Hopefully they haven't sent athe information via a form post instead thinking that is more secure!

Disgraceful, O2 should be ashamed.

honestly! 

By Cambon
Posted Wednesday 20th February 2008 10:32 GMT

I know! and as for basic English mistakes such as 'athe information via a form post instead '! Heads should roll!

I'll confirm I reported this on the 4th 

By Joe
Posted Wednesday 20th February 2008 10:56 GMT

I reported this, but I didn't post it to the media as I thought it was somewhat irresponsible to do so and once fixed it is kind of a moot point really.

It was fixed by the end of Monday 11th and my initial phone call was.... 5pm-ish Monday 4th February. I asked to speak to a manager, they rang me back at 7pm. Midday Tuesday another manager rang for permission to give my details to someone else. Someone else rang me on Wednesday, I emailed them screenshots and a description around 4.20pm Wednesday. Tuesday 12th had a voicemail from the same someone else to check the problem was solved.

Without doubt the hardest part was explaining that this wasn't just a case of someone else using my computer and me needing to clear my cache.

Disgraceful, O2 should be ashamed? 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 20th February 2008 14:53 GMT
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Why should O2 be ashamed? They didn't write the bluebook application. I have it on strong authority that they are using a third party piece of software from a company called newbay called lifecache to host bluebook, so it is not their coding error, it is the fault of a third party and all blame should lie with them.

http://www.newbay.com/productsandservices.php

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