http://www.origsoft.com/blog/sears-grilled-web-blunder/ a blog by Original Software Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.origsoft.com/blog/sears-grilled-web-blunder/comment-page-1/#comment-1501 “Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die” (Happy Halloween from uTest) | Software Testing Blog Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:53:07 +0000 http://www.origsoft.com/blog/?p=181#comment-1501 [...] From OrigSoft.com: “It’s a well-known problem with websites that if you trust user-submitted data that you will get burned. Sears literally did get burned by their own incompetence when their website started promoting ‘Grills to cook babies and more’. The problem wasn’t a huge lack judgment by the Sears product team, but rather a lack of understanding about displaying variable names and values in the URL. A lot of sites do this by default, but the Sears site took it one step further. If a specific page became popular, the results were cached and displayed to users.” [...] [...] From OrigSoft.com: “It’s a well-known problem with websites that if you trust user-submitted data that you will get burned. Sears literally did get burned by their own incompetence when their website started promoting ‘Grills to cook babies and more’. The problem wasn’t a huge lack judgment by the Sears product team, but rather a lack of understanding about displaying variable names and values in the URL. A lot of sites do this by default, but the Sears site took it one step further. If a specific page became popular, the results were cached and displayed to users.” [...]

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