139465 - website loops the first page

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Marco Mescalchin]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

looping between two index webpages

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit http://www.spacewalker.com/

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirmed on linux.  Over to networking for investigation.

Comment 2

[Michiel van Leeuwen (email: mvl+moz@)]

The problem:
dafault.htm redirects to default.asp. 
default.asp contains:

var a=0;
if(a=0){
window.document.location.href="http://www.spacewalker.com/english/default.htm?"+
Math.random();
a=1;
}

So we are sent back to default.htm?123432
default.htm?123432 sends us to default.asp again. -> loop

Comment 3

[guanxi]

Netscape 4.78 and IE 5.0 (on Win2K) don't have the problem.  They both load the
page as expected and in the end display this address in the url field.
http://www.spacewalker.com/english/default.asp

Moz RC1 (2002041711) on Win2K reproduces the problem.

Comment 4

[Prachi Gauriar]

Confrimed on Mac OS X. 

Just my quick analysis (and I don't know Javascript), but is the problem that
it's "if(a=0)"  instead of "if(a==0)" so a is always assigned 0? If so, that's
purely an issue with the script. If "if(a=0)" is the proper syntax in Javascript
(which I don't think it is), then this bug should be worked on. Else, this
should be marked INVALID.

Comment 5

[benc]

cc for javascript help...

phil, any ideas?

Comment 6

[Michael Gabriel]

takes me straight to http://www.spacewalker.com/index3.html
WFM 2002071608 win2k

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

Resolving as WORKSFORME. Using Mozilla trunk binaries 20020715xx
on WinNT, Linux, and Mac9.1.

Just as Michael reported above, Mozilla now is taken directly
to http://www.spacewalker.com/index3.html, no problems.

Choosing a country and entering the site also works fine.
It looks like they may have changed the HTML at the site.

[e-mail]: if you get a chance, could you try
the site again with an up-to-date Mozilla build? If the site
loads OK for you, could you mark this bug "Verified"?
Otherwise, you can reopen it; thanks -

Comment 8

[Marco Mescalchin]

from [e-mail]
I tried with build 2002071813
and works fine.