229527 - airfrance.us - Enter flight dates in form. When submitting error message: "date does not exist".

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Christian Stoller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

The airfrance website (which did not work previously with Mozilla) has been
redesigned.  The new problem is more subtle:

Fill in a form to check for flights using dates like January 30, 2004 and
February 19, 2004.  Submitting the form results in an error message "The date
you entered does not exist".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to "www.airfrance.us"
2. on the left hand side of the display under "book" enter destination and date.
3. Click continue.

Actual Results:  
After the new page displays showing the dates that were entered there is a pop
up error message "the date you entered does not exist".


Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have shown the list of available flights for the dates that were
entered.

The webpages work correctly with IE 5.5 on the same computer.

The problem existed already with Mozilla 1.5.

The problem occurs also on Mozilla 1.6b on MacOS 10.2.8 (the page is also not
working with Safari 1.0.  However, there is no error message).  The page works
with IE 5.2.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The site is carefully designed not to work in any browsers but IE and NS4, with
the following code:

	var AnneeJavaScript = DateJavaScript.getYear();
	AnneeJavaScript = parseInt(AnneeJavaScript,10);

	if ((AnneeJavaScript < 2000) && (document.all))
	{
		AnneeJavaScript += 1900;
	}
        if(document.layers)
	{
		AnneeJavaScript = 1900 + AnneeJavaScript;
	}

followed by the code looking at AnneeJavaScript and comparing it to the year you
entered and posting the bogus error message you see if they don't match up.

Now GetYear() is NOT y2k-compliant; that's what GetFullYear() is for.  So in
Mozilla AnneeJavaScript ends up being "103" (for the next few days, anyway).

This site just needs to switch to GetFullYear() and remove all this broken
browser-sniffing code.

Not a Mozilla bug.

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

Site was redesigned and this now works fine using FF trunk 20040802 on Win2k &
Linux.