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I work at an Apple Premium Reseller, and when we order stuff from Apple we use http://reseller.apple.com http://reseller.apple.com (which now seems to redirect

I work at an Apple Premium Reseller, and when we order stuff from Apple we use http://reseller.apple.com http://reseller.apple.com (which now seems to redirect to https://ecommerce.apple.com/ https://ecommerce.apple.com/) and all those systems feels hacked together just as you're saying. The Reseller Store has been down the whole time the Developer Center has been down. Even more interesting perhaps, our company's "master apple id", which is used to place multi 100K USD orders from Apple, got some strange seemingly manual password reset from Apple about the same time as the Developer Portal went down. Apple's hardware service portal (http://gsx.apple.com http://gsx.apple.com) has also been even more flakey this week than normal. Something is broken over at Apple.

sudont 13y ago
"Won't fix, as designed." B2B web apps have been hacky since time immemorial. Where I work, a different engineering team wrote a CMS in a bunch of Java with somehow Perl CGI to handle all of the little hacks that couldn't be put in to the main code base. I found this out by fixing a hack named emailservice_bkp_new2.cgi which was a hard coded rss parser. Our other client relations applications are even worse, often in IIS 6.0, and dating from 2003. Simply put, there isn't much "business reason" behind fixing something that isn't broken, but very shoddy. The difference now is that "prosumer" application developers have enough economic weight to register as a force, but not enough to cause Apple to reconsider their entrenched developer relations.
tazjin 13y ago
Do you have access to the CRT? If yes, does that still work? It hinges on the same login infrastructure as reseller.apple.com AFAIK. I have nothing to do with Apple anymore so I can't check it myself :)