Closed Bug 223285 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

I enter "engineering", hit search, and get "yp.yahoo.com&qtx=engineering could not be found. Please check the name and try again." Other search terms seem to work; works in IE.

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(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INVALID

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(Reporter: beckman, Assigned: bugzilla)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 I have a smart bookmark for Yahoo! Yellow pages: http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypResults.py?stx=%s&stp=a&tab=B2C&addr=100+Pitt+Street&city=Alexandria&state=VA&zip=22314&country=us&msa=8840&slt=38.804963&sln=-77.044935&cs=9&Submit=Search Keyword: yp This doesn't seem to cause the problem. If I go to http://yp.yahoo.com/ and type in engineering, I get an infobox saying: "yp.yahoo.com&qtx=engineering could not be found. Please check the name and try again." I went to IE and tried it, and the term "engineering" worked fine. It may be a Yahoo! coding issue, or maybe a bug in the code that handles the related HTML. Too bad IE uses non-standard ways of making stupid code work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://yp.yahoo.com/ 2. Search for "engineering" 3. Hit "Search" button. Actual Results: I got an infobox popup saying: "yp.yahoo.com&qtx=engineering could not be found. Please check the name and try again." Expected Results: Submitted the search. Tested in IE, works. It worked on Win2000 at home; it may be a sporatic failure.
Summary: I enter "engineering", hit search, and get "yp.yahoo.com&qtx=engineering could not be found. Please check the name and try again." Other search terms seem to work; works in IE. → I enter "engineering", hit search, and get "yp.yahoo.com&qtx=engineering could not be found. Please check the name and try again." Other search terms seem to work; works in IE.
I cannot reproduce in the same manner. I can only see this bug if I follow the bookmark link (encapsulating previous search?), not if I go directly to http://yp.yahoo.com Setting URL field accordingly. I managed to reproduce this bug in mozilla, and then konqueror (=yuck), and even lynx, so I'm confident it's not our bug! The fact that it works in IE and on other machine is probably due to the fact that you load yp.yahoo.com directly on those machines, but that other URL on your XP machine. I could be off the mark, if so please comment further, otherwise this bug should be resolved INVALID. OFF TOPIC: This is one weird bug, any other search string works, including engineerin or engineerink... I have no idea what could be happening, I'm glad it's not a mozilla bug.
Confirmed that the problem seems to be browser independent; I will look into it. Since it is browser independent, bug is invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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