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The UK government's resilience website is itself far from resilient. Attempts to fill out the feedback form consistently return an ironic runtime error page (screenshot here). The error message reades in part: "An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the …

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  1. Pete mcQuail
    Black Helicopters

    So what

    exactly was on there that the IWF didn't like?

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  2. Dick Emery
    Joke

    Blocked

    Brown's underpants.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Black Helicopters

    Bird flu and influenza?

    Isn't that resilience in itself? Having two of the same thing on your top 4 just in case one of them is debunked?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Down

    nice to see

    Nice to see they using Linux for hosting the website to save cash on Windows licences, oh wait

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  5. dreamingspire

    Tell Tom Watson..

    ..because he's the Minister responsible for web stuff

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  6. glennog
    Boffin

    Nothing to do with resilience...

    And everything to do with either bad application configuration or (more likely, considering the questionnaire is presented to the user before the error occurs) bad application programming. Considering for a moment that resilience is the provision of standby or failover capability in the event of server or site failure, bad configurations and/or programming is not something that would be considered. Moreover if the application was badly written, that same application would be made available at any resilience/disaster recovery site and would present exactly the same issues. So, as you see, nothing whatsoever to do with resilience and thereby cancelling out any sense of irony the author feels.

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  7. N

    Hmm...

    Yahoo messenger & iTunes running as well? seems fairly loosely regulated on what you can run on your PC whilst stroking the ivory for El-Regizeera

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Not that bad

    Agree with glennog. It is very likely it was probably a configuration error. If the form is sent via SMTP it could incorrect mail server configuration.

    They must have repaired whatever the problem was. It can't be that bad cosidering the PM's site can't even have an email form. http://www.number10.gov.uk/footer/contact-us

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Alert

    Title not found

    404 Page Not Found

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  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Who are these children

    that the UK government pay to build their websites?

    It is awful, and I am sure child labour is still illegal, but hey with the new welfare reforms in place, who knows what's allowed nowadays.

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  11. Dr Patrick J R Harkin

    We dob't need a resilience website

    The main web servers will never fail - they're run by the goverment, who understand these things!

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  12. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Re: Who are these children...?

    EDS

    Capita

    Fujitsu

    etc

    etc

    Riots in Mumbai, so any work outsourced there could be delayed.

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  13. cor
    Linux

    Windows as a server - Gaaaaah.

    Something to add to the list of illnesses and viruses (viri).

    Clearly some scriptkiddie graduated from VBasic to '.NET' and bypassed the need for a formal training or understanding of coding practice.

    "Oooooohhh look, I can make wizard dance in Office 2003. Now me export as HTM, cos I iz da bom!"

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