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by jwrallie 562 days 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.
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kotaKat 562 days ago
A 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.

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