144462 - platform specific plugin download page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Colin Blake]

When you visit a page which requires a plugin you don't have, the browser wants
to take you to the Netscape plugin page. Problem is, this site doesn't have, and
never will have, and plugins for OpenVMS. We therefore want the browser to go to
a different page for OpenVMS.

Comment 1

[Colin Blake]

Attachment: Patch for OpenVMS-specific plugin page

Would really like to get this into 1.0 RC3/final. Who can start me off with an
r=?

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

-->greggl

Instead of hacking up the client, could the server-side page be fixed for
OpenVMS or a dynamic redirect added?

Comment 3

[Gregg Landskov (gone)]

If there is a file extension or a mimetype associated with OpenVMS and this data
is inside <embed>, then the pfs can send the client anywhere it needs to go. 
Just need the following information.

Mimetype/File Extension
Destination URL

Comment 4

[Colin Blake]

I haven't got a clue what the mime type is going to be. It could be anything. 
But instead of going to Netscape to look for a plugin to handle the mime type, I 
want it to go to a Compaq site.

Now, if this can somehow be done at the Netscape site by a redirect, then that 
is certainly one solution. The Netscape server must know what the client O/S is 
when it searches its database for a plugin, right?

Comment 5

[Colin Blake]

I would really like to get this into RC3. Please tell me how to proceed.

Comment 6

[Peter Lubczynski]

> Now, if this can somehow be done at the Netscape site by a redirect, then that 
> is certainly one solution. The Netscape server must know what the client O/S is 
> when it searches its database for a plugin, right?

Please quote the exact user agent strings and what URLs they should redirect to
in this bug.

Comment 7

[Colin Blake]

We have two browsers; a standard Mozilla browser and a branded one named CSWB.
Here's the user_agent from each and the URL we'd like redirecting to (argh, it
looks like Mozilla is wrapping the long user-agent strings in this text box):

Mozilla
HTTP_USER_AGENT is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS
COMPAQ_AlphaStation_DS20E_666_M; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512"
Redirect to:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/mozilla_relnotes.html#plugins

CSWB
HTTP_USER_AGENT is "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS
COMPAQ_AlphaStation_DS20E_666_M; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513 CSWB/V1.0
(Compaq)"
Redirect to:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/cswb/cswb_relnotes.html#plugins

So basically (assuming its Mozilla) if the O/S begins with "OpenVMS"
then we want a redirect. And its CSWB if there's a VendorProductToken starting
with "CSWB".

Is this what you need?

Comment 8

[Colin Blake]

Peter, is Netscape going to set up the appropriate redirects? If they are, I can
stop worrying about trying to get this code checked in to RC3.

Comment 9

[Colin Blake]

Peter says (via mail) that the redirects can't be done. So I'm back to needing
checkin approval for my patch. Too bad I've missed the 1.0 boat now :-(

Comment 10

[Gregg Landskov (gone)]

>> Reassigning to Ray

Ray agreed to set up the server side pfs script to redirect all OpenVMS UA
strings.  I really don't want to set up two cases for OpenVMS, one for Mozilla
and one for the branded version, I assume the branded page is more desirable,
but that is up to Colin.

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/cswb/cswb_relnotes.html#plugins

Comment 11

[Colin Blake]

Let me check with our web person. If we can only have one redirection, then I'd
like it to me for all OpenVMS Mozilla based browsers (Mozilla and CSWB, and I'd
like it to redirect to a common plugins page. But I need to find out (a) if our
web person wants to do that, and (b) what that URL would be.

Comment 12

[Colin Blake]

Can we make all Mozilla based browsers on OpenVMS redirect to the same URL? If
you check the O/S description and see if it begins "OpenVMS" then I think that's
all you need. It should redirect to:

http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/cswb/cswb_plugins.html
(this page is not currently active but will be soon)

One test. One URL. Doable?

Comment 13

[Colin Blake]

Ray, where are we on this?

Comment 14

[Gregg Landskov (gone)]

I believe that Ray's changes were pushed live.  Have you tested it?  We aren't
really set up to test.

Comment 15

[Colin Blake]

You're right! Its there and it works. Thanks guys.

Marking fixed.

Comment 16

[shrirang khanzode]

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