141408 - uwa.edu.au - Bad absolute Url link on this page cant be accessed (Block Diagram Transformations)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Christoph Conrad]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

At the bottom of the page mentioned there are 
"Course notes" and a link
<http:Year2/PLDS210/alg_anim.html> (Algorithm Animations).
Trying to access the link: "Year2 cannot be found".
Opera 6.0 B1 works. The author of the page says IE also
works.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on the link mentioned in the description
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Error message

Expected Results:  No error message. Display page
<http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/alg_anim.html>

Comment 1

[Adrian Ulrich]

dup of bug 22251 ?

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

See bug 32966 and bug 22251

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32966 ***

Comment 3

[Paul Wyskoczka]

v

Comment 4

[basic]

Paul: this should be tech evang

Comment 5

[basic]

reassign

Comment 6

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

huh.. 6 missing / on the whole page.. we can't expect the author to do that, can we?

Comment 7

[Andreas Otte]

This never was not a dup of bug 32966. The urls in question contain hostnames,
this is just a case of missing //. We can expect page authors to do this.

Comment 8

[Andreas Otte]

Okay, I take it back. This bug was a dupe of bug 32966, the two links for

CA406  Computer Architecture
VSD425 VLSI Systems Design (Course Outline Only)

are now fixed, but the patch "broke" the link for

Block Diagram Transformations Block Diagram Examples

because it is now interpreted as a relative url, but is meant as an absolute,
just with the two // missing. That is the link:

<a HREF="http:ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/Java/BD/test.html">Block
Diagram Transformations</a>

Previously this url would have been "fixed" by the urlparser because it was
interpreted as absolute. This no longer happens. Too bad, but this is just plain
bad html. 

So this still is tech-evang ... but reduced to one bad link.

Comment 9

[Andreas Otte]

changing summary to reflect new situation

Comment 10

[Frankie]

The guy is using at least four different kinds of syntax in his URLs. A small
sample:

<td><a HREF="Year1/CLP110/CLP_ToC.html">CLP110/CT105(ii)</a></td>
<td><a
HREF="http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/ds_ToC.html">PLSD210</a></td>
<td><a HREF="http:CA406/CA_ToC.html">CA406</a></td>
<td><a HREF="http:VSD425/VSD.html">VSD425</a></td>
<td><a HREF="Year2/PLDS210/alg_anim.html">Algorithm Animations</a></td>
<td><a
HREF="http:ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/Year2/PLDS210/Java/BD/test.html">Block
Diagram Transformations</a></td>

And he's a freaking computer scientist; it staggers the mind. What kind of
programming language would accept that kind of variation without choking?

Comment 11

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 12

[Pascal Chevrel (relman team) -> :pascalc]

all links look ok now, marking fixed