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Guillermo Castro  

Gmail oopses

So, if you use Gmail, I’m sure you’re also getting the regular ‘Oops’ message:

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I’ve been having this error on and off for at least 3 weeks, and sometimes it annoys me (OK, every time). Doing a basic research, it appears many people are aware of this error, but no one knows why. Even though the system is in the ‘beta’ stages, I think an explanation from Google would be nice. Someone on some Spanish blog mentioned that it has to do with the domain changes they’re doing because of the G-mail lawsuit, but there’s no evidence supporting this.

Does the fact that the service is advertised as ‘Beta’ make it OK for a company to ignore these kind of problems?

UPDATE: I followed a suggestion that someone gave to me, and it seems that the problem has gone away. What I did, basically, was to modify my bookmark of gmail, to connect thru https. This seems to avoid the Oopses.

javageek

I started developing programs when he was 12 years old and still likes to code to this day. Since 1997, I’ve been working almost exclusively with Java, doing desktop and enterprise applications for local, national and international companies alike. I love working with computers. I graduated from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) with a major in Physics and a minor in Electronics.

4 thoughts on “Gmail oopses”

  1. Anonymous

    Never happened to me. Heavy user.

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  2. Anonymous

    Well.. was told that they didn’t like to recruit coders with a background from the finance sector since they were regarded as too rigid when it comes to platform engineering and caring for the test/uat/prod lifecycle in order to know what actually goes into prod.
    10 Sow;
    20 Reap;
    30 Goto 10;

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  3. Anonymous

    I heard they push or can push a new release every week. Maybe they don’t know how to test GMail properly.

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  4. William R. Walling

    Your response ‘https://’ denotes addressing a secure server attending GMail.
    While this is novel, web sites are employing more ‘secure’ servers each day.

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