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SonOfLilit ◴[] No.43794105[source]
After having been bitten once (was teaching a competitive programming team, half the class got a blank page when submitting solutions, after an hour of debugging I narrowed it down to a few C++ types and keywords that cause 403 if they appear in the code, all of which happen to have meaning in Javascript), and again (working for a bank, we had an API that you're supposed to submit a python file to, and most python files would result in 403 but short ones wouldn't... a few hours of debugging and I narrowed it down to a keyword that sometimes appears in the code) and then again a few months later (same thing, new cloud environment, few hours burned on debugging[1]), I had the solution to his problem in mind _immediately_ when I saw the words "network error".

[1] the second time it happened, a colleague added "if we got 403, print "HAHAHA YOU'VE BEEN WAFFED" to our deployment script, and for that I am forever thankful because I saw that error more times than I expected

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1. netsharc ◴[] No.43795987[source]
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