RE: https://infosec

[tommorris@mastodon.social]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/115282375666361005

Dante could think of no worse punishment than an eternity working on SAP systems. It’s truly the most nasty cursed piece of shit I’ve ever seen, and the world would be better if it snapped out of existence tomorrow.

[tommorris@mastodon.social]

The first cursed thing I learned about the SAP system I had to integrate was that to submit data, I had to send non-standards compliant SOAP messages. Literally construct an XML document in a DOM, then run various regexes over it in order to break it in ways that worked with their shitty XML parser.

It didn’t have transactions. You sent in data, one row would fail, but all the others would get inserted.

Every day, more annoying shitty errors that required emailing arsehole consultants.

[andypiper@macaw.social]

@tommorris oh, my fun days working on business integration challenges as an IT consultant back in the day. There was a particularly fun retail system that involved squirting XML directly into a TCP socket (with no confirmation, and it could terminate the connection when it felt like it). Sorry, I know your rant is SAP specific! But yes, many such annoying things out there in the wild. This is where software businesses build services businesses (see also: Salesforce IBM Oracle et al)