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Comments on: PayPal hit by glitches in online payments

The eBay unit says the problem appears to be related to a coding update.

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" Pires said the problem appeared to be related to a coding update ..."

by October 11, 2004 6:26 PM PDT

" Pires said the problem appeared to be related to a coding update ..."

And sloppy code at that !!

Hmmm... alrighty then ...Let me see ...
when I "view source" with my browser I see the following line of code directly under the body tag (and lets remove the space in the body tag guys - reads: <body > should read: <body>) REALLY SLOPPY CODING!:

<body >

nslookup 102.112.2O7.net
we get:
Name: 102.112.2O7.net
Address: 216.52.17.118

ARIN results for 216.52.17.118
( www.arin.net for looking up IP #'s)
Internap Network Services PNAP-8-98 (NET-216-52-0-0-1)
216.52.0.0 - 216.52.255.255
Omniture PNAP-SFJ-OMNITU-RM-01 (NET-216-52-17-0-1)
216.52.17.0 - 216.52.17.255

I don't know PayPal's relation with the company "Omniture" out of Orem, Utah with a simple class C 255 IP# block... but it looks to me like browser requests are going to third parties outside of the eBay/PayPal network !!

Do these folks know where their HTML code is going to ????

Do we have an HTML coder out there to see this also ??

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what are you looking at?
by October 12, 2004 7:17 AM PDT: I just (10:15 Eastern 10/12) checked the src in Firefox and IE and didn't see anything like what you are talking about. What are you looking at???; Like this

It is not HTML code that is the problem...
by October 12, 2004 10:49 AM PDT: It isn't the HTML or web site code that is the problem, it is the server code that runs the backend of the the system. This is why it is affecting payments and the debit cards.

Robert; Like this

Two things...
by tubedogg October 12, 2004 9:16 AM PDT: First, I am absolutely baffled as to how a software upgrade that seems only to have affected their homepage could possibly be interfering with processing transactions for their PayPal-branded debit card. I have had four transactions in the last day rejected, despite sufficient funds.

Second, why are they still using the new software? Surely they have some sort of roll-back procedure in place for when things go completely bonkers after an upgrade.; Like this Reply to this comment

fix it!
by chigirlmi October 12, 2004 2:03 PM PDT: This is a l-o-n-g outage. I find it hard to believe there isn't SOMEONE there that can find the glitch. What a wretched mess!; Like this Reply to this comment

RE: It is not HTML code that is the problem...YES IT IS ... READ THIS ....

by October 12, 2004 2:47 PM PDT

Could this code be coming from vulnerabilities in the MS Internet Explorer web browser ?

See the story:
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+warns+of+22+new+security+flaws/2100-1002_3-5406550.html

One of the patches corrects scripts running in image tags, the image tag seen, directly below the incorrect body tag, was an image tag with a script attached to it.

The MS critical updates when applied appears to have corrected the logon capability w/ a PayPal account

Are we seeing a MS I.E. vulnerability, which is somehow hitting PayPal ?

This PayPal outage thing started Friday, and aren't the BANKS CLOSED ON COLUMBUS DAY ??? !!!

Comments anyone ?

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No
by tubedogg October 12, 2004 3:48 PM PDT: Your browser has nothing to do with it. I don't use MSIE and I am only intermittently able to login...and regardless that wouldn't explain why my debit card keeps getting declined.; Like this