134561 - de.lgservice.com - blocks Mozilla server-side

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P3)

Description

[phartmann]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; de-AT; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020331
BuildID:    2002033109



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto URL
2. On top you see a menu.
3. When moving the mouse over "Produkt-Unterstützung"(=product support) or
"Kundendienst" (=Service) nothing happen.

Actual Results:  No submenu is visible !

Expected Results:  Both menu points should show an additional horizontal submenu.


JRE2 v. 1.3.1_02 plugins are active.
Netscape 4.78 and IE 5.5 show this submenu.

Comment 1

[Vadim Berezniker]

they're using dreamweaver it seems

the code does the following
(a) browser doesn't have document.layers so it must not be netscape
(b) browser doesn't have document.all so it must not be IE
(c) so nothing will be done

-> evang

Comment 2

[Jacek Piskozub]

It's Germany. Therefore -> Europe: West

Comment 3

[Vadim Berezniker]

sorry. i was never good at geography =)

(and no i'm not american :-P)

Comment 4

[Mat]

ok here are the instructions to get it work :
in the top main frame, which should be located at :
http://de.lgservice.com/bin/HPI/HpiHomeMenu.exe?SysCode=HPI&serviceKind=1

they are using DW javascript code.
replace the MM_showHideLayers() function with this one :


function MM_showHideLayers()
{
  var i, visStr, args, theObj;
  args = MM_showHideLayers.arguments;
  for (i=0; i<(args.length-3); i+=4)
  {
    visStr   = args[i+3];
    if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && document.layers != null)
    {
      theObj = eval(args[i]);
      if (theObj)
        theObj.visibility = visStr;
    } //netscape
    else if (document.all != null)
    { //IE
      if (visStr == 'show')
        visStr = 'visible'; //convert vals
      if (visStr == 'hide')
        visStr = 'hidden';
      theObj = eval(args[i+1]);
      if (theObj)
        theObj.style.visibility = visStr;
    }
	else // 1 2 3 DOM
	{
		if (visStr == 'show')
        visStr = 'visible'; //convert vals
      if (visStr == 'hide')
        visStr = 'hidden';
		theObj = eval(args[i+2]);
		if (theObj)
        theObj.style.visibility = visStr;
	}

  }
}


Then, in the html code, the arguments of each MM_showHideLayers() call needs to
be changed like that :

MM_showHideLayers('document.layers[\'Layer1\']', 'document.all[\'Layer1\']',
'document.getElementById(\'Layer1\')',
'hide','document.layers[\'Layer2\']','document.all[\'Layer2\']',
'document.getElementById(\'Layer2\')',
'show','document.layers[\'Layer3\']','document.all[\'Layer3\']',
'document.getElementById(\'Layer3\')', 'hide')"

this is easier than it sound, just add " 'document.getElementById(\'LayerX\')',
" after each " 'document.all[\'LayerX\']', ".

Enjoy :)

Comment 5

[Vadim Berezniker]

Mat, you must not understand ...
These people use a macromedia product to generate their pages, hence the MM
prefix on the functions. 
It would be pointless for the webmaster to change it by hand since next time the
page was generated it would have the bad code again.
There's already bugs filed to evangelize macromedia products.

Comment 6

[James Cox]

actually, i believe macromedia products are pretty much fixed (or close to it). 

the problem is, for sites such as this (lg , big company, etc), a lot of money
would have been spent on creating it, and i doubt they'll want to spend money
updating again.

we have to help them so it won't take all that much time to do so - do the work
for them where possible, even.

Comment 7

[Mat]

So this bug should be marked as a dependency for 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51020 (which blocks
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57456) ...

Comment 8

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

contact info, in german : http://de.lgservice.com/bin/HPI/HpiHomeMain.cgi

Comment 9

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

anyone can send a german evang letter ?

Comment 10

[Frankie]

http://de.lgservice.com/bin/HPI/HpiHomeMain.exe no longer exists (404 error)

http://de.lgservice.com/ runs a script that sets a cookie then redirects to
http://de.lgservice.com/bin/HPI/HpiHomeMain.cgi

http://de.lgservice.com/bin/HPI/HpiHomeMain.cgi apparently does server-side
sniffing, and sends Mozilla (also Curl and Lynx) the following code:

<HTML><BODY>
<SCRIPT>top.location.replace('/index.html');</SCRIPT>
</BODY></HTML>

MSIE receives a company web page. How rude!

Comment 11

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

New Component

Comment 12

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

en other default owner

Comment 13

[Martin Alderson]

WFM now, they have changed to JSP and they let in both FF 0.9.2 and IE in the same.

Closing.