149633 - metafilter wont load

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Art Copeland]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    1.0

Error Occurred While Processing Request

Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while evaluating the expression:

#cookie.user_name#

Error near line 238, column 191.

Error resolving parameter COOKIE.USER_NAME

The cookie value USER_NAME was not found in the current template file. The cause
of this error is very likely one of the following things:

   1. The name of the cookie variable has been misspelled.
   2. The cookie variable has not yet been created or has timed out.

To set default values for cookie variables you should use the CFPARAM tag (e.g.
<CFPARAM NAME="Cookie.Color" DEFAULT="Red">)

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of
(#cookie.user_name#), occupying document position (238:190) to (238:207).

Date/Time: 06/06/02 09:51:00
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
Remote Address: 213.25.244.4

Please inform the site administrator that this error has occurred (be sure to
include the contents of this page in your message to the administrator).



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to load metafilter
2.
3.

Actual Results:  errors included above

Expected Results:  see the page IE works fine

Comment 1

[Richard Godbee]

This was a problem with MetaFilter's cookie handling (not Mozilla) that appears
to have been fixed.  The page loads fine with Mozilla now.

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Works for me in the OS X 2002-06-17-05 build