The blue donkey strikes again!

whats this?

We call really bad hacks the blue donkey... because this poor animal has been beaten to an inch of his life...

In this case, a new provider we're using is giving us a crazy amount of errors... but when we look at the data... the transaction is there...

So, after investigstion, when we send properly encoded xml that contains for example < / > " .

The data writes away but their api catastrophically fails.

Ends up... the team responsible for returning data, doesn't know how to do that. It's going to take them 6 weeks to fix.

Now we have to strip out all text that could potentially contain it...