a Case of Workplace Sabotage

General (non-technical) Off-Topic
#1

Can anyone here please confirm that I am experiencing a case of workplace sabotage?

http://stjoevisitorguide.com/fanadmin/miphonegetphoto.php?build=joedipenta.app.eng

Is the link my app is supposed to use. When I try to access it, it returns a 404 but not when you click on it directly. This is not supposed to happen. In fact, the app was working 100% yesterday.

http://stjoevisitorguide.com/fanadmin/miphonegetphoto.php?build=joedipenta.app.eng

Above is the link that my coworker’s app uses. Both links work when you click on them, but only one can be read with Corona. This one: http://stjoevisitorguide.com/fanadmin/miphonegetphoto.php?build=joedipenta.app.eng returns an error saying 404, and the returned file is too short. However, the text format of that link is longer than the source code of the other link because of the asterisks, so it should not say that at all.

This is what is returned when I try to connect to each one with Corona.

Can anyone prove that I am experiencing workplace sabotage? Bonus points if you can prove exactly how it was done.

In any case, I got my app working because I ended up using HIS link and chopping off the extra HTML code. It’s not about the app now. It’s about PROOF!

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#2

http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/6770/sabotage.png

That’s the link to the picture of my Corona console upon making a network request, sorry about the poor formatting on my OP. [import]uid: 51895 topic_id: 28631 reply_id: 115457[/import]

#3

I don’t know about anyone else, but Im not inclined to click on either of those links to see what is going on if your suspicions of sabotage are grounded.
I think theres something else going on, and that you are being a little paranoid.

Both those links are the same: I have compared the HTML source of the page letter by letter.
If one app reads and another doesn’t, the one that doesn’t either has a bug or a firewall, or something of that ilk.

In the screenshot there is an odd format for the link: The ‘error page’ doesn’t seem to have a leading brace unless I overlooked it .(its late)
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#4

http://stjoevisitorguide.com/fanadmin/mgetphoto.php?build=joedipenta.app.eng was the other link (the one that works correctly), I accidentally copied the same link (my link) into the box as I was headed out the door. It was an unfortunate typo. Thanks Jeff for taking the time to review my post.

http://stjoevisitorguide.com/fanadmin/miphonegetphoto.php?build=joedipenta.app.eng was my link. They both work when you type them in a browser but for some reason I couldn’t access my link through Corona. Whoops… my bad on the typo.

Now, while I’m willing to accept I’m paranoid sometimes, I actually did query both of the links using the exact same build of the app with only the difference being the link so I know that it’s definitely not the case that one of the apps was buggy… I used the same app and kept all others factors constant. One of the links worked in the app while the other simply didn’t. Even stranger, the app was working and had no bugs the afternoon before, and I had even built the working app onto a device. When I came in the next morning it was broken because something had been changed on the PHP back end on just my file. The file was actually GONE… it had completely disappeared overnight. So the coworker in question uploaded what he claimed to be the exact same file, and it ‘magically’ didn’t work. Oh well, even if it was sabotage it’s going to be hard to prove. Was hoping to get some sort of confirmation that something is definitely not right with that file though. After all, it is very strange that it simply stopped working all other factors held constant. [import]uid: 51895 topic_id: 28631 reply_id: 115692[/import]

#5

>>The file was actually GONE… it had completely disappeared
overnight.<<

So, that doesn’t sound very mysterious. At least, in terms of why one link suddenly stopped working.
Why the file went missing… well, that could be accident or design.
Unless you have journalled server, you may never know.
Even now the pho scripts are different.
The mphone version contains: img alt="" src=“img/”/

while the miphone version has nothing but a row of asterisks in the source

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#6

I’m aware that the files contain different content. The weird thing is my file disappeared overnight and was replaced the next day by a file that was exactly identical in content in every way to the old one except for the single fact that it cannot be read by Corona’s network request function. It was working like clockwork the day before and then was returning an error the next day after something got changed. I’m just trying to figure out what got changed to stop a seemingly identical file from being read into Corona one day and returning an error the next day on read attempts. Maybe server settings on the file itself? You will notice that if you try to pull data with a network request off the mgetphoto one, there is no error. This is ultimately how I pulled the data that I needed… by using the file that the OTHER app was using, because it wasn’t causing any newly introduced mysterious errors.

Can you confirm that only one of the files cannot be read? [import]uid: 51895 topic_id: 28631 reply_id: 115724[/import]