Let's try that! I was trying to do some trivial task on a .gov website, but was greeted with the following, which I'm pasting here for your convenience. Could you spot the problem? Because their customer service can't.

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Error Page Exception
SRVE0260E: The server cannot use the error page specified for your application to handle the Original Exception printed below.

Original Exception:
Error Message: javax.servlet.ServletException: /verification.xhtml at line 66 and column 34 action="#{verificationAction.authenticateClient()}": java.lang.NullPointerException
Error Code: 500
Target Servlet: Faces Servlet
Error Stack:
javax.el.ELException: /verification.xhtml at line 66 and column 34 action="#{verificationAction.authenticateClient()}": java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.el.TagMethodExpression.invoke(TagMethodExpression.java:95)
at javax.faces.component._MethodExpressionToMethodBinding.invoke(_MethodExpressionToMethodBinding.java:88)
at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.__AW_processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java:100)
at org.apache.myfaces.application.ActionListenerImpl.processAction(ActionListenerImpl.java)
at javax.faces.component.UICommand.broadcast(UICommand.java:120)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._broadcastAll(UIViewRoot.java:995)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.broadcastEvents(UIViewRoot.java:278)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot._process(UIViewRoot.java:1307)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.processApplication(UIViewRoot.java:733)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.InvokeApplicationExecutor.execute(InvokeApplicationExecutor.java:34)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.__AW_executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java:172)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.executePhase(LifecycleImpl.java)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.__AW_execute(LifecycleImpl.java:119)
at org.apache.myfaces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.execute(LifecycleImpl.java)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.__AW_service(FacesServlet.java:189)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:1233)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:782)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:481)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.ServletWrapperImpl.handleRequest(ServletWrapperImpl.java:178)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.invokeTarget(WebAppFilterChain.java:136)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:97)
at com.icbc.licensing.filter.ThreadContextFilter.__AW_doFilter(ThreadContextFilter.java:92)
at com.icbc.licensing.filter.ThreadContextFilter.doFilter(ThreadContextFilter.java)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:195)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:91)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletFilter.__AW_doFilter(Log4jServletFilter.java:71)
at org.apache.logging.log4j.web.Log4jServletFilter.doFilter(Log4jServletFilter.java)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.FilterInstanceWrapper.doFilter(FilterInstanceWrapper.java:195)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:91)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.doFilter(WebAppFilterManager.java:967)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.filter.WebAppFilterManager.invokeFilters(WebAppFilterManager.java:1107)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.CacheServletWrapper.handleRequest(CacheServletWrapper.java:87)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WebContainer.handleRequest(WebContainer.java:949)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.WSWebContainer.handleRequest(WSWebContainer.java:1817)
at com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.channel.WCChannelLink.ready(WCChannelLink.java:200)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleDiscrimination(HttpInboundLink.java:463)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.handleNewRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:530)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.processRequest(HttpInboundLink.java:316)
at com.ibm.ws.http.channel.inbound.impl.HttpInboundLink.ready(HttpInboundLink.java:287)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.sendToDiscriminators(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:214)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.complete(NewConnectionInitialReadCallback.java:113)
at com.ibm.ws.tcp.channel.impl.AioReadCompletionListener.futureCompleted(AioReadCompletionListener.java:175)
at com.ibm.io.async.AbstractAsyncFuture.invokeCallback(AbstractAsyncFuture.java:217)
at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture$1.__AW_run(AsyncChannelFuture.java:205)
at com.ibm.io.async.AsyncChannelFuture$1.run(AsyncChannelFuture.java)
at com.ibm.ws.util.ThreadPool$Worker.run(ThreadPool.java:1892)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.icbc.licensing.clio.action.VerificationAction.DbAuthInsertandCount(VerificationAction.java:118)
at com.icbc.licensing.clio.action.VerificationAction.__AW_authenticateClient(VerificationAction.java:161)
at com.icbc.licensing.clio.action.VerificationAction.authenticateClient(VerificationAction.java)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor440.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:56)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:620)
at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.__AW_invoke(AstValue.java:268)
at org.apache.el.parser.AstValue.invoke(AstValue.java)
at org.apache.el.MethodExpressionImpl.invoke(MethodExpressionImpl.java:278)
at org.apache.myfaces.view.facelets.el.TagMethodExpression.invoke(TagMethodExpression.java:83)
... 46 more

Error Page Exception:
Error Message: javax.servlet.ServletException: WebBeans context with scope type annotation @RequestScoped does not exist within current thread
Error Code: 0
Target Servlet:
Error Stack:
javax.enterprise.context.ContextNotActiveException: WebBeans context with scope type annotation @RequestScoped does not exist within current thread
at org.apache.webbeans.container.BeanManagerImpl.__AW_getContext(BeanManagerImpl.java:363)
at org.apache.webbeans.container.BeanManagerImpl.getContext(BeanManagerImpl.java)
at org.apache.webbeans.intercept.NormalScopedBeanInterceptorHandler.getContextualInstance(NormalScopedBeanInterceptorHandler.java:125)
at org.apache.webbeans.intercept.NormalScopedBeanInterceptorHandler.invoke(NormalScopedBeanInterceptorHandler.java:96)
at org.apache.webbeans.conversation.ConversationImpl_$$_javassist_0.isTransient(ConversationImpl_$$_javassist_0.java)
at ...