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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst API you've run into? by drdaeman on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:05AM (#13244176)
Hmmm... Anything enteprisey. I once had to interop with Viacess-Orca RiGHTv IPTV/DRM clusterfuck, and wouldn't recommend anyone to get remotely close. Not just to that, but to anything SOAP.

Then, maybe, PayPal's NVP APIs. Quite a mess (although, I guess, I can understand why it's that way), with docs not really covering the fine details, esp. all the possible failures.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst API you've run into? by jamesmp98 on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:46AM (#13244290)
" Viacess-Orca RiGHTv IPTV/DRM "

a what?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst API you've run into? by drdaeman on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:22AM (#13245118)
An system used for IPTV services by one of ISPs (a large telco) I've worked for. Basically, a giant piece of Java EE that strives to make everyone's life harder. Consumers get all the niceties of DRM, service provides get fun time trying to tie it with their accounting systems (that's what I had to do) and trying to figure out when it breaks, etc.
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