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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.
Sunday February 22, 2009
05:46 PM
What a phenomenally bad web site error
I won't name the site because I don't want crackers looking into this, but here's a fascinating error message I received when trying to create an account.
alter table users_new add column 39b6c79e6a45fa57dfefca048bb1d0ce' in 'where clause' varchar(255) null
Unknown column '39b6c79e6a45fa57dfefca048bb1d0ce' in 'where clause'
Obviously, I did not write this software
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DailyWTF (Score:1)
That’s worthy of a DailyWTF submission.
Re: (Score:2)
Can I be snarky and mention that the extension on the page was .php? :)
I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the heck they were thinking.
Re: (Score:1)
You sure can. :-P
And yeah, one column per user? WTH?
Re: (Score:2)
I was thinking that too, but it can't be it. This particular web site has a moderate amount of traffic and for them to use it, they have to be authenticated. So a table with that many columns is just going to fall over. I'm guessing (hoping) this is some database migration SQL which somehow is trying to get applied per user.
Little Bobby Tables (Score:1)
I hope Little Bobby Tables never signs up for that site, for their sake
Re: (Score:2)
Heh :) XKCD for the win. (I tried thinking of a more subtle reply, but couldn't. Sigh)