[PLUG] OSCON Expo Plus pass

[Bill Ensley]

This makes sense.  I checked 'no' to everything from the start.  A bad string in a URL param could definitely explain what you have seen.

- Bill

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On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:44 PM -0700, "Keith Lofstrom" <keithl at kl-ic.com <mailto:keithl at kl-ic.com> > wrote:


On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 10:06:01AM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> 
> I just spent nearly an hour filling out the form and finally gave up.
> It is almost impossible to fill out all the required boxes correctly
> and, if you do finally succeed, the Continue button gives you a page
> indicating that you will be charged $10 for a contribution to
> Mothercoders, even though you said No previously. 

The code for the page seems poorly behaved.
I succeeded on my third try. 

While I tried to give O'Reilly the user information they
wanted (they sell OSCON to vendors with that), on my final
attempt I filled in or checked the minimal number of boxes
and NO to everything, and succeeded.  Too bad for O'Reilly
and their conference marketing efforts.

I'm no web coder, but my uneducated guess is the vast amount
of information they ask for builds a return string that is
too big for an undersized buffer somewhere downstream. 
Thus, a minimum-possible reply fits into that buffer,
but answering all their questions in detail does not.

Cruelty-free software production - it's not tested. :-/

I would love to hear from a web expert with a better idea
of what is going on here; perhaps Tim O'Reilly would, too.

Perhaps PLUG's savvy web coders can schedule an evening
BOF where they pick apart the OSCON web code and tell
O'Reilly what is broken.  Then we "freeloaders" are
paying our keep, in addition to providing marks for
the expo hall vendors to peddle their wares to.

Keith

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