181683 - This is just one example of many Active Server Pages from secure sites which return This Page can not be found.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131212

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[George Kinal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

Specifically in this case the returned URL is:  https://public.dmv.washingtondc.gov/scripts/gs/null

This happens on many (most) secure sites which employ Active Server Pages, since I upgraded to Mozilla 1.2b. It did NOT happen with 1.1 nor with Netscape 5.5.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.dmv.dc.gov
2. follow links to online services, renew registration
3. all is OK until the link as shown in this bug report intro

Actual Results:  
This Page can not be found, etc.

Expected Results:  
Registration renewal page should have appeared. In actual fact I did renew,
using Netscape 5.5. (Microsloft Internet Exploder 5 also works).

All SSL levels have been activated.

I have encountered this identical problem on other sites and thought that the
problem was caused by the sites' use of ActiveX, i.e. an insistence on accessing 
using MSIE, but I now find that Netscape works on most of these sites. In fact Mozilla 1.1 worked for me on some sites which now reject 1.2b.

Comment 1

[Thomas Holaday]

Attachment: An eleven line HTML file, shrunk from the example URL

So far as I can tell, the only function of this HTML file is to invoke the
javascript file (see other attachment).

Comment 2

[Thomas Holaday]

Attachment: A one-line javascript file: var location = null

This was boiled down from the example URL.  My guess is 'location' is a magic
word.

Comment 3

[Thomas Holaday]

WinXP SP1, 20021122.

I saved the HTML generated by this .asp and removed stuff until I had a testcase
that demonstrated the failure in very few lines.  Looks like Mozilla's
javascript parser doesn't like "var location = null;"

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

-> DOM Level 0, I think (per comment 3)

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131212 ***