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Two possible reasons: 1) Incompetent developer. 2) It is being deliberately done so that other sites that give Railway information can still leech the informati

Two possible reasons: 1) Incompetent developer. 2) It is being deliberately done so that other sites that give Railway information can still leech the information. And also, on-papers Railway can show that they have implemented proper security or whatever they think it is.

krapp 13y ago
Either way, it seems pretty obvious they don't actually care about security but do care about the appearance of security. And viewing the source it looks like they have multiple head and body tags.
kwhitefoot 13y ago
Surely a Captcha is the wrong solution to the problem (whatever the problem was). Instead of complaining about the implementation we should be wondering about the requirements.The only thing the Captcha does is raise the cost of pushing the 'Get Status' button. Simply limiting the rate at which the information was supplied to any given IP address would surely serve the same purpose. Anyway take a look at the source and you will see that it is full of junk with   everywhere as padding for alignment, obviously written by someone with a very poor grasp of web page implementation. The kind of thing I might throw together as a proof of concept to hand over to someone more adept for implementation. (I develop technical software). It isn't just the dev who is incompetent, the problem is the system in which he is working.
korvenadi 13y ago
I don't say they are incompetent. They might have some cost constraints and that is why it doesn't look appealing to you.
- krapp 13y ago
  Recaptcha is free and takes minutes to implement. Those aren't valid excuses.
ahmedmzl 13y ago
I would say option 1 + corruption. The outsourcing provider is corrupt as a whole or the ministry didnt pay the outsourcing provider well. The ministry gets a lot of money for the projects and find the cheapest and corrupt outsourcing provider they could find out in the market so that they spend and also get the money back through backdoors. But do note that the developers of the main booking site irctc.co.in may not be the same as the developers of indianrail.gov.in Security and Usability has not been a major concern for the government websites. If you want the worst designed bus booking website then take a look here: http://www.tnstc.in/TNSTCOnline/ http://www.tnstc.in/TNSTCOnline/

krapp 13y ago

Either way, it seems pretty obvious they don't actually care about security but do care about the appearance of security. And viewing the source it looks like they have multiple head and body tags.

kwhitefoot 13y ago

Surely a Captcha is the wrong solution to the problem (whatever the problem was). Instead of complaining about the implementation we should be wondering about the requirements.The only thing the Captcha does is raise the cost of pushing the 'Get Status' button. Simply limiting the rate at which the information was supplied to any given IP address would surely serve the same purpose. Anyway take a look at the source and you will see that it is full of junk with   everywhere as padding for alignment, obviously written by someone with a very poor grasp of web page implementation. The kind of thing I might throw together as a proof of concept to hand over to someone more adept for implementation. (I develop technical software). It isn't just the dev who is incompetent, the problem is the system in which he is working.

korvenadi 13y ago

I don't say they are incompetent. They might have some cost constraints and that is why it doesn't look appealing to you.

krapp 13y ago
Recaptcha is free and takes minutes to implement. Those aren't valid excuses.

ahmedmzl 13y ago

I would say option 1 + corruption. The outsourcing provider is corrupt as a whole or the ministry didnt pay the outsourcing provider well. The ministry gets a lot of money for the projects and find the cheapest and corrupt outsourcing provider they could find out in the market so that they spend and also get the money back through backdoors. But do note that the developers of the main booking site irctc.co.in may not be the same as the developers of indianrail.gov.in Security and Usability has not been a major concern for the government websites. If you want the worst designed bus booking website then take a look here: http://www.tnstc.in/TNSTCOnline/ http://www.tnstc.in/TNSTCOnline/