danielmg

Reading the bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1749957#c5 and then the code, isn't there still a problem if content-length is not set by the server? Not that it should ever not be set but...

  if (contentLengthStart == -1) {
    // There is no content-Length.
    return;
  }

That's the same flow it would have taken with the case sensitive code.

Comment · 4 years ago

BER is a process as part of the scheme rules. The banks have to at least attempt to recover the funds.

It's not a message but a file sent from sender to beneficiaries.

Comment · 4 years ago

FPS Bank Error Recovery is a part of the scheme rules. The money comes back.

https://www.fasterpayments.org.uk/sites/default/files/Pay.UK...

Comment · 4 years ago

Err no. The payments get settled at BoE at the end of the cycle. This would have caused double draw on their settling account. They would have had less money.

Comment · 4 years ago

I'm assuming this was FPS and the FPS scheme has a defined Bank Error Recovery process as part of the scheme rules.

Comment · 5 years ago

It really depends. I've put someone through a disciplinary before for a really expensive failed change. Not because they made the mistake but because they failed to do any sanity checks before hand or post-imp checks - they just bashed it in and walked away.

I'd never go this route with a geniune mistake as they are life's best lessons. But there is a difference between an honest mistake and a mistake that could have been easily avoided had process been followed.

Comment · 5 years ago

That's the Vimes' boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

Comment · 5 years ago

fewer features

Comment · 5 years ago

It will never be used as a general currency by the man on the street.

For example in the UK we have Direct Debits which are backed by the DD Guarantee. If a DD is wrong or fraudulent the bank must refund you without question and they initiate a DDIC (indemnity claim) against the creditor bank. This could not happen with Bitcoin.

Same for problems such as push-payment fraud - they are rolling out confirmation of payee to try to tackle this. How could Bitcoin be a viable payment method in it's current form when addresses are anonymous (in the context of PPF)?