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Re: WTF Delaware?

#11

Post by deathanatos »

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of :
With the CSS of:

  height: 3000px
  width: 3000px
  position: absolute
  top: 0px
  z-index: 50000
I do love arbitrary constants.

Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these:

  Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [object Object] is not a function
Looks like jQuery isn't getting loaded, but that's probably because of:

   [blocked] The page at 'https://corp.delaware.gov/paytaxes.shtml' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://www.delaware.gov/CLF2012/js/jquery-1.5.1.min.js': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
So, yeah, no jQuery, no script, defunct page. The problems seem to be rooted in the fact that jQuery didn't load due to it being sent over HTTP, and not HTTPS; indeed, loading the page on HTTP causes things to appear to work.

Just don't use any security, and everything will work just fine. :-) This problem seems to cover the entirety of corp.delaware.gov, too.

Also, the 404's the article mentions,

  GET https://corp.delaware.gov/undefined?1394573701086 404 (Not Found)
I doubt that the URL is supposed to have "undefined", but rather that JS has stabbed yet another dev in the back.

Re: WTF Delaware?

#12

Post by rd108 »

Just got bit by Delaware's corporate name-check service. It only runs during EST business hours. I just want to query a database to see if a name is already taken, thank you..

Re: WTF Delaware?

#13

Post by jliptzin »

deathanatos wrote: post #11

There appears to be a giant on top of the entire website. It's the first non-comment child of : With the CSS of: height: 3000px width: 3000px position: absolute top: 0px z-index: 50000 I do love arbitrary constants. Killing it makes the site responsive. No idea what it's there for. I'm guessing that it should be moved by JS, but the JS is failing. There's a lot of these: Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [ob…

Of course, the giant div! I use those all the time.

Re: WTF Delaware?

#14

Post by ForHackernews »

jliptzin wrote: post #3
sheetjs wrote: post #2

The IRS EIN Application also has "hours": http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... > Our new hours of operation [for the application] are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Is there a good reason to do this? I'm actually curious

I guess it gives you a free maintenance window every night.

Re: WTF Delaware?

#15

Post by kbar13 »

it's the same way at the Rutgers web registration software. It's actually a pretty nicely done web app, but it is "unavailable" at night.

Re: WTF Delaware?

#16

Post by justizin »

happyscrappy wrote: post #9

I can't pay my "greatly reduced taxes because I am a Delaware corp" in two seconds! Imagine if you had real problems.

Right, I found this amusing:

"I hope by now you’ve seen the irony here. Our government has likely forked over millions of our tax dollars (how much did Obamacare cost?) to private contractors in exchange for a site so utterly dysfunctional that it can’t even serve its purpose of collecting those very tax dollars! That’s how broken our system is."

Our system is so broken that most new corporations are formed in a company with _no_ space available for your business or for you to live, only a person who sits and answers a phone for a few thousand or hundred thousand companies to prove an 'office location' or whatever wording.

Delaware doesn't care because they get some taxes, what you'd really call a payoff for being a tax protector.

There were pretty heinous problems with the situation at hand before OP opened his web browser.

Re: WTF Delaware?

#17

Post by 8_hours_ago »

jliptzin wrote: post #3
sheetjs wrote: post #2

The IRS EIN Application also has "hours": http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... > Our new hours of operation [for the application] are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.

Is there a good reason to do this? I'm actually curious

Not that this is a good reason, but one possibility is that the backend could require human interaction. Perhaps when the form gets submitted it gets automatically sent to a printer where a person manually files it. I could see a process like that showing up on http://thedailywtf.com ...

Re: WTF Delaware?

#18

Post by _nato_ »

``This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time''

Easter is on the 20th of April this year. You will miss the boat completely!

Re: WTF Delaware?

#20

Post by protomyth »

cschneid wrote: post #4

My only guess is a batch job that really really doesn't want data changing out from under it (and the devs were too lazy to batch up the next days changes to be submitted post-job).

I think you have it. 11:45PM sounds suspiciously like the batch job kicks off at midnight and should be done by opening of business the next day. I figure if it looks like it will go over 8AM then they have to kill it because the office staff is going to change data regardless of what IT wants.
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