217437 - pepecar.com - Only Iexplore users are allowed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Spanish, defect)

Description

[sysifus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Pepe Car is a car rental company, associated with several travel agencies.
The initial page redirects to the real home page only if you are using Internet
Explorer:
if (navigator.appName=='Microsoft Internet Explorer') /* enter the site */
else /* go to an error page */

But the script has an error (https://www.pepecar.com/preindex.htm at line 45)
and not redirects it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://www.pepecar.com

Actual Results:  
Nothing (a blank page).

Expected Results:  
Another page, for example: https://www.pepecar.com/ES/default.html

Comment 1

[sysifus]

Attachment: Workaround

The attached file demonstrates that "pepecar.com" does not depend on any
propietary technology of Microsoft. With a modified frameset the homepage is
loaded without any problem. 
There are some javascript errors too, like incorrect references to frames or
variables.
Contact mail: [e-mail].

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

The web site also has problems with IE

Contact :
[e-mail]

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

adding a blank between the status whiteboards allows the field to wrap in bug
lists. :-)

Comment 4

[sysifus]

Attachment: T.E. letter sent to the webmaster

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

sysifus, when you contact the site please set the milestone for a month in the
future and mark the bug assigned so we can track who has been contacted and when
they should be followed up. If your letter bounces or whatever, you can try
again or reset by removing the milestone and reassigning to the default owner.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This site seems to work properly in Camino-trunk and Firefox 2 now. FIXED unless someone has a compelling argument otherwise. Sysifus, thanks for your help on this!