107681 - duats.com - isindex to .shtml gets sent to *.html instead[from sub]

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Dale Stimson]

With Mozilla 0.9.5 under Linux, an isindex field that should be directed to
file.shtml gets sent to file.html instead.

This functionality works OK under netscape 4.77.

To reproduce:
Go to page http://www.duats.com/actypesearch.html
Enter "cessna" in the form field, press enter.
That will send a request to http://www.duats.com/actypesearch.html?cessna
whereas the request should have been sent to
http://www.duats.com/actypesearch.shtml?cessna

The proper result would have been a page giving a bunch of aircraft
type abbreviations.  The actual result is to see the original page with
the form again.

The page's isindex line is:
<isindex action="actypesearch.shtml" prompt="Single word to search
for:&nbsp;&nbsp;">

Comment 1

[gstoll]

I see this problem on Linux 2001103021.  Manually typing in
http://www.duats.com/actypesearch.shtml?cessna gives the expected result.

Comment 2

[Alexandru Savulov]

have you tried with Navigator 4.x?

Comment 3

[Dale Stimson]

Regarding: "have you tried with Navigator 4.x?"

Yes, it works under netscape 4.77.  See the second paragrapho the original bug
report.

Comment 4

[Vladimir Ermakov]

First of all ISINDEX is deprecated, and therefore should not be used. Second the
action attribute for ISINDEX is not part of the specifications at all. The
correct standards complient syntax would be to have a form with action and an
input type="text" inside of it...

<FORM action="actypesearch.shtml">
<INPUT type="text" name="">
</FORM>

This is invalid

Comment 5

[Vladimir Ermakov]

actually I should not have marked it invalid, its an evengelism issue

Comment 6

[Alexandru Savulov]

if it's tech evangelism let's reassign it to the adequate team

(i confirm that ISINDEX is deprecated acording to W3C's HTML4.1 spec)

reassigning

Comment 7

[James Mohler]

To say that that a tag that is deprecated should not be supported is extremely
dangerous. <font> anyone? Furthermore <isindex> has two uses in HTML 4.01, one
of which can be replaced with a form submissionm, the other CANNOT.

Please view bug 106203 for more details

Comment 8

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 10

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

This has been fixed, the site has changed its markup to use tags other then isindex.