181036 - deepmetrix.com - LiveStats login page does not display

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Sam Hulick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

LiveStats login page does not display at all.  Also try
http://livestats.gearhost.com:8080

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Visit http://stats.hitnet.net/
Actual Results:  
blank page

Expected Results:  
Shown a page

Comment 1

[Torben]

The javascriptConsole give these error, probably Tech Evang:

http://stats.hitnet.net/
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x804b0012 [nsIDOMLocation.href]"  nsresult: "0x804b0012 (<unknown>)"  location:
"JS frame :: http://stats.hitnet.net/jscript/bdetect.js :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line
1"  data: no]

http://livestats.gearhost.com:8080
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x804b0012 [nsIDOMLocation.href]"  nsresult: "0x804b0012 (<unknown>)"  location:
"JS frame :: http://livestats.gearhost.com:8080/jscript/bdetect.js ::
<TOP_LEVEL> :: line 1"  data: no]

Comment 2

[Ian Neal]

WFM using buildID 2002111108 on WinXPSP1

Reporter: could you try a more recent buildID and report back?

Comment 3

[Harshal Pradhan]

I'm guess the people who are seeing this dont have the java-plugin installed. Right?

Looks like this site really doesnt like browsers that dont have java enabled. 

The browser sniffing at http://stats.hitnet.net/jscript/bdetect.js
looks like this ... (slightly beautified for readability)

/*V1.1*/
if(parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1)) < 4)
  {location.href = "";}
else if(!navigator.javaEnabled())
       {location.href = "";}
else {if (document.layers ||(!document.all && !document.layers))
        {if(!window.frames){location.href = "";}}
else if(document.all){if(!document.frames){location.href = "";}}}


So if you dont have java enabled you are out of luck, you will end up at 
location = ""

This bug may be kept open to consider whether we should be throwing an exception
if a script does location.href="".

But other than that, I guess you just have to evangelize the webmaster for
allowing in java-less browsers in.

Comment 4

[Torben]

Harshal, you are right. With java disabled I get a blank page, but with java
enabled the site works.

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

-> Tech Evangelism

re comment 3
> This bug may be kept open to consider whether we should be throwing
> an exception if a script does location.href=""

that may be bug 101276

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

confirm bug and that the issue is java disabled/not installed with an infinite
direct due to the assignment of '' to location.
[e-mail]

Comment 9

[Cyrille VIVION]

[bug248549notfixed]

Comment 10

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.

Comment 11

[Ian Neal]

Site has gone away -> INVALID

Comment 12

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Site has gone away -> INVALID

For future reference, we typically regard these sort of bugs as FIXED by death of site.