The more often I visit The Daily WTF, the more I love it - eat this:
For many more, check out the previous post from the series, Pop-up Potpourri: Julialicious
Steven Reitsma must not have heard. For those who missed it: a few weeks ago, God endorsed Symantec’s latest anti-popup software.

There’s no word on Him endorsing MSDN, but I doubt it. Especially after MSDN sexually harassed Eric J. Bias …

Mike came across this pop-up and wasn’t quite sure if a “smart spyware shopper” is an oxymoron or plain old moron …

It was bad enough that Three’s price for Sony Ericsson K800i with a mobile plan was a bit steep, but did they really need to rub Franco Trimboli’s face?

Andrew Craft wasn’t quite sure what Lenovo was apologizing for or what they were thanking him for … at least they’re no Three:

Finally! A useful Tip-of-the-Day, as discovered by R. …

Well Jasper de Lange, it coulda have been much worse. At least it wasn’t Something Terrible, Something Awful, or, even, Something Dreadful.

In the last episode, we saw a picture from inside the 12th car on an 11 car train. Dan postulates that (null) is probably that car’s destination stop …

Bill was having a tough time getting Apache JMeter to work. Anyone know how to configure 1 to be less than 0?

You know you’ve done something reaaaaly bad when Dell, of all entities, yells at you. Thomas Nielsen sure learned his lesson …no more swapping his hot-swappable drives …

But hey, at least Dell wasn’t as harsh as this Network Diagnostic Tool that Mike Davis was trying to use. A lesser user would have likely been brought to tears.

Quick! What button would you press if you wanted to close Smart Tools? If you answered “the X button in the upper right corner,” you win. Don’t worry, it took Jon a few tries, too …

Ha! And you guys think that CAPTCHA that I put together is hard to read. At least I didn’t use the one that K.C. tried to use …

Yah, yah, yah, Russ Baker, go ahead, rub it in. There’s eight innings left and we’ll see who’s laughing when Indians catch up in the sixth and teach your Red Sox a lesson …

And I suppose we’ll wrap it up with this screenshot from Shaun, who’s IM buddy hasn’t reached The End of the Internet after 136 straight years …

from: The Daily WTF
Jeremy was kind enough to share a “live WTF” with us all. Although I receive a fair number of submissions that point to a publicly accessible website, I rarely link to the site in question. As bad as it is that Mom-And-Pop-Store.com has a “SqlString” parameter on their viewProduct page, I doubt they’d appreciate it when someone went and replaced “SELECT … WHERE ProductId=43″ with “DROP DATABASE”. Not that any of you would do that or anything.
Today’s example comes straight from Marlboro.com and is best experienced with FireFox. Go ahead. Click it. I’ll wait.
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… back? OK, good. Now, if you were using something other than Internet Explorer, you likely experienced a familiar sight: a blank page as a result of the site being coded for IE only. In and of it self, that’s not too big of a deal, even for #20 on the Fortune 500 List, Philip Morris Altria.
What inspired me to share this with you today was the unique way that Marlboro.com redirects visitors to the actual content page. Consider that, normally, if one wanted to redirect visitors from one page to another, he’d use one of the following techniques:
- Sending a HTTP 300 “Redirect Response” from the server
- Using the “Refresh” META Tag in HTML
- Setting the browser’s “window.location” with JavaScript
Aparantly not content with any of these fairly standard ways of redirection, the folk(s) behind Marlboro.com decided to use the following:
- Programmatically setting the HREF property of a hyperlink on the page and then executing the (IE-Only) click() method on that hyperlink
Though you can view this for yourself at Marlboro.com, presented below is the HTML source of the page ….
< html>
< head>
< meta name=”GENERATOR” Content=”Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1″>
< title>Coupons and special offers from Marlborotitle>
< meta name=”keywords” content=”marlboro cigarettes, marlboro miles” />
< meta name=”description” content=”" /> head>
< script language=javascript>
< !–
function redirect()
{
var anchorObj = document.getElementById(”target1″);
anchorObj.href = “http://smokersignup.com/signup/index.jsp?pc=MAR2006″;
anchorObj.click();
}
//–> script>
< body onload=”javascript:redirect();”>
< a id=”target1″ href=”#”>a> body> html>