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    Hello.  You won't find any information about ebeer.co.nz here, but let me
    share with you a a story about looking at source code.  I was contacted by a
    supplier of one of our clients with a question regarding a system that we
    had put in place, for our client, that they were using.  Out of interest I
    checked their website (a curious web developer does these kind of things)
    and noticed that they had a misconfigured Google Analytics Javascript
    fragment at the bottom of their page.  Being the nice guy that I am, I
    answered their initial query and mentioned the Javascript code and suggested
    they should get their web people to fix it.

    "I don't know what you mean?" was the response.  I wasn't surprised.  I sent
    an example, showing a screenshot. Just forward this onto your web person and
    they'll sort it out.  The screenshot was of the source of their website.

    "I don't see how this is relevant to the question I had in the first place?"
    was the response.  It's completely unrelated, I just noticed it and am doing
    the right thing by letting you know.  It's like telling someone that their
    brake light on their car isn't working.

    Hours later I get an email from the person's supervisor and the
    "Administration Manager" for the company.  It says:

        How we have our website set up and what we use is our business. If you
        are looking for work I consider this an underhand way of going about it.

    Whoa up lady, I'm just being a kind citizen.  I send a reply to that effect
    (but didn't say whoa up).  A message comes back saying that the initial
    problem "did not require you to visit our website" and that it's not normal
    practice for people to view the source of a website.

    It is normal for me to view the source of a website if I'm interested in the
    technology being used to provision it.

    Separately to this, she had contacted my manager and said that my behaviour
    was completely inappropriate and unethical and that it was totally wrong
    that I had viewed the source code.

    My manager and I were completely speechless!  (can you imagine)

    My manager wrote a reply back being as diplomatic as you could saying that
    it wasn't inappropriate for anyone to view the source of a website, but just
    in case he has issued me with a warning never to view the source of their
    website again.

    The problem went away.  I never viewed the source of the website again.

    ... well until just now when I had to check to see if the problem had been
    fixed.


    ... it hasn't :-)

    -B.

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            <small>bob at ebeer.co.nz</small><br/>
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