I’m really cross.
It’s car insurance renewal time. I had done the usual rounds at confused.com (which has improved recently) and decided to give comparethemarket.com a whirl.
Confused always used to irritate me and leave me thinking “it could be so much better”, and comparethemarket.com had amused me what with their highly amusing comparethemeerkat.com spin-off.
Anyway, off I trotted… I put my details in the first page and clicked next:
Error page on comparethemarket.com
Oh dear …
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the input which causes the error was the apostrophe in my surname (O’Neill) – I tried it with various input and they worked until I put an apostrophe in.
What a shame – spending all that money on a fantastic little advertising campaign then spoiling it all by giving an error page to a significant minority of the population as well as, now this is a great assumption, leaving yourself open to a SQL injection attack.
