Hidden secrets in c9 revealed! (I have proof this time)

Loadsgood has recently gone and done some deep digging and has uncovered hidden secrets and bugs in Channel9, and this time he has proof!


c9india has exact copies of 'The coffeehouse', 'Citizen Engineers', 'The Moblog' and all the other c9 forums. In fact, I am actually posting this to the Coffeehouse forum in c9India, so I don't know if this will work or not. Here are just some of links that prove it:
Coffeehouse - India
Citizen Engineers - India
The Videos - India

I think thats enough links. Another weird bug is the use of 'subsite' and 'forumgroupid' in some of the urls in c9india. Here are some links to prove it:
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition - India
Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition - India
The Videos - India

On top of that c9 (not just india) gets its own security certificate signed by (of course) Microsoft. I believe that Channel 9 doesn't need a security certificate, especially one that "Ensures the identity of a remote computer" go here for the evidence.

I also have uncovered some hidden forums. They don't have names, I don't know what they are for and, their forum ids are -1,-2,-3 etc. here is a link to one of them:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=-1


Am I a good journalist or what?

Have you used PageSucker or another tool in that category?  

I take it this "PageSucker" program is a web page download program. Is it?
And no, I didn't use a web download program or anything like that. As my post above says "deep digging" which obviously means I used my muscle power, and some good shoveling.

String theory, you have crossed into another dimension of the channel9 zone.  

Loadsgood wrote:

I take it this "PageSucker" program is a web page download program. Is it?
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You're either a good journalist or very bored

I'll put my bets on very bored lol:-)

I'm not bored, I just have a lot of time on my hands.
And the part of me, my journalistic small guy, put me into a state of 'journalist wanting to be'. A state which has been reached by no other.

Well, what's your goal with this?

Channel9 is a work in progress; it's about “us” as much as it's about Microsoft.

So will you be fixing this c9india bug? or are you going to leave it?
What about that '-1' forum? Is this the archive of all the threads?
Oh yes, does Microsoft give out security certificates to all of its sites? Even including the ones that don't need it?

Sorry about all the questions, but I'm just curious to find out some answers. But then again 'curiosity killed the cat.' My answer to that is: 'Lucky I'm not a cat.'

Hey Loadsgood,

A program I have found really useful, very well written, and just basically neat is Synchronex:

Xellsoft


A good python utility.

http://www.xellsoft.com/synchronex_readme.html

double link since it did not take the first one ;-(

Hey thanks manickernel, I am sure to get well on my way to good coding with that software program. The more I make programs, the better I get and eventually I will code in C#, C++ and all the rest of them.

Hmm, I'll venture into this one. First off, I'm not sure I see what's so "Buggy" about the points that you made about C9 India. When we designed this feature, the goal was twofold, first, we wanted to make a section of the site which could be customized by non US subsidiaries. Which is mostly what you see on the c9 India homepage. Second, we wanted all of the features of C9 to also be available, along with custom branding so that the people viewing the site always had a return vector. We ended up using urlrewriting in an HttpHandler to open up a custom configuration which displays those customizations, but also uses the entire site as it's source.

As for the certificate, we are using the same server that we used to create a site for the PDC in 2003, we needed a certificate for that site, i can't remember why. Could have been Passport.

The -1 (any negative) forum is a trick that we use to get you the full site RSS feed, it just so happens that, as with any good data provider model, the parameter tricks that work in one feature also work in another. If it's hurting someone (and i mean physically) we'll fix it, as it is, i think it's rather useful don't you? We should almost publish a link to that from somewhere.

All that aside, nice sleuthing!

-Bryn

Hey thanks Bryn for the answers, I even don't mind about the security certificate since I'm using it right now, I don't know why but I am. I don't think the -1 is hurting anyone, so you can leave it. Not that you need my approval or anything

Charles, I don't mind how long it takes to release, just as long as it works (XPSP2 anyone?)