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Hah, of course!

Thanks, appreciate the advice!

Oh god - I hope I don't have to write a follow-up to this. There's probably a bunch of hidden other firewalls I don't handle but most often I've found 403 and 503 to be the most common.

Hey, OP here - I'm open to advice about how best to handle this! I'm currently just opening a new window and writing the HTML to it.

What's the safest way to handle this? Open it in an iframe?

OP here - I'm open to advice about how best to handle this! I'm currently just opening a new window and writing the HTML to it.

What's the safest way to handle this? Open it in an iframe?

I've found often in my career that, sadly, learning things the hard way is usually the best way to remember the lessons.

Oh god this is horrible!

Yeah, I can't believe how stupidly locked down some of these networks are.

I once had an employer said they needed a "whitelist" of websites we wanted to visit instead of a "blacklist" of ones we shouldn't. That was an interesting day...

I agree, it's not great but I guess it's the price we pay for how easy it is to take money over the internet nowadays.

I recently launched a product, called Thankbox.

Product idea is really simple - you can set up a Thankbox (like an online card) for someone and share it within your group of friends to put messages, images, gifs and cash in it. You then send it to the recipient.

We wanted to add a feature where the recipient could respond to everyone who had left messages on their card - a kind of "Thanks so much for your kind words" type thing.

We rolled it out to production. The first time it ran it spammed everyone who had ever left a message on any thankbox with the response. Luckily we just launched and we didn't have that many users.

I thought it'd be a learning experience worth sharing, though, so I wrote up a Twitter thread about it to share my embarassment as a learning experience.