219001 - Google Groups posting link doesn't work; results in blank screen.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[peter asch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

i put details above

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open mozilla 1.5
2. go to the URL
http://posting.google.com/post?gs=%2Fgroups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dalt.vacation.las-vegas&cmd=post&enc=ISO-8859-1&group=alt.vacation.las-vegas
3.

Actual Results:  
a blank page with DONE in the STATUS BAR

Expected Results:  
a Google webpage with a text input area for posting articles to Google Groups as
well as other standard Google stuff on the page.

I put MAJOR  for severity because Google is so huge that if a major page in
Google doesnt work  it needs attention.BTW my build # if it is needed is
2003082704  moz 1.5b

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Responding to your verbose comment in the Summary line of this bug:

'Because of this incredibly bad form that you have here with one line i cant se
what im typing .You make it very uninviting for people to help you by reporting
problems..Thank You.'

Hence, the idea of a summary.

And yes, the URL you posted DOES indeed work for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows;
U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911 on Windows 2000.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Cleaning up summary.

Comment 3

[David Dalton]

The posting link works once or twice and then the blank results
and a refresh brings up the html raw code and back and forward 
either the blank or the html raw code.   The only way I have
found around that is to shut down mozilla and restart and
if I am doing a bunch of posting (well, even say six posts)
via google groups like now when my campus newsserver is down
it is a bit of a pain (plus I lost my copy buffer once
when shutting down and restarting mozilla but that is a
different matter).    Probably over a month ago I also
commented on this to the groups.google.com support people
since it could be a problem on their end not yours.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with 2004022909 win32 build.