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It’s always good to take a look, many things are decided on the client side, and developer tools are part of the browsers anyway. The other day I wanted to mak
by jwrallie 2y ago
It’s always good to take a look, many things are decided on the client side, and developer tools are part of the browsers anyway.
The other day I wanted to make reservations for a service to send my luggage from the airport to my house in Japan, and the form was giving me errors.
Searching for the error string around I realized there was a timeout set on the client side, so I increased it and could slowly but smoothly fill in all the information that required a server check.
I guess they never bothered to debug their system when accessing it from the other side of the world. All it needed was a few extra milliseconds for the requests to arrive in time.
- kotaKat 2y agoA major ISP's "outage check" feature sends all the data back client-side for the actual outage ticket, including circuit IDs, dispatch status, and if the outage is valid for customer credit. I now just hit that API as needed to check when shit goes sideways. Meanwhile, if you put your ZIP in you just get a little friendly "We're working on it! :)". I love data firehoses like that.