making things easy = making things hard

[cellio]

The first time I traveled for work with my employer I saw that I could register frequent-flyer account numbers with them and they would do the right thing there. I didn't yet have a frequent-flyer account on the carrier we usually use, but I figured I could come back and add that later

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[kayre]

And why does anybody have a blank where a phone number must be entered in a particular format, instead of building that in?

[cellio]

Yeah, that too -- just ran into that today, in fact.

[goljerp]

Bonus points if they're also vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

[cellio]

Yes! This one is not, by the way. :-)

[dvarin]

why in the world does anybody have password rules that do not permit any low-order ASCII character

My guess: somebody somewhere is embedding it into a regex.

Not telling you your account number seems really odd. It seems to imply an assumption that you'll only book flights directly with the app rather than going through a third party, like a travel agent or tour company or something.