250166 - satyam.com - Java Script form action is not functioning for redirect

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Maasil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

On clicking "ok" button of the page the following function is called. This
function is working well in IE but it is not working in Firefox 0.9.1

<SCRIPT Language="JavaScript">
		  function OK()
           {	
	           if ("tsmsnjp.satyam.com" == "tsmshts.satyam.com")
	           {
	             frmUser.action =
"https://tsmshts.satyam.com/ValidateLogin.asp?nvar=r717?57:A" 
		         frmUser.submit();
		       }
		       else
		       { 
		           if("OFF" == "OFF")
	               {
	                frmUser.action =
"http://tsmshts.satyam.com/ValidateLogin.asp?nvar=r717?57:A" 
		            frmUser.submit();
	               }
	               else
	               {
	                frmUser.action =
"https://tsmshts.satyam.com/ValidateLogin.asp?nvar=r717?57:A" 
		            frmUser.submit();
	               }
	           }
           return true;
           }
===== HTML CODE
<input type="button"  name="ok" value="  Ok  " class=BodyBtn1 onClick="OK()">
===




Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Since it is a intranet site u cant access it without username/password.
2.Try simulating the same situation and test
3.

Actual Results:  
not redirecting to another page

Expected Results:  
on clicking a for button should be redirected to another site mentioned in the
script

Comment 1

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

could you give some more details about your html code? like, how does the <form>
 look like?

also, not a js engine issue, -> dom:html

Comment 2

[David Tombs]

The code works fine with "document.frmUsr". I believe this is a user coding
error, not a bug.

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Yet another stinking IE-pollutes-the-window-scope-with-names-and-ids evangelism
bug.  Cc'ing bclary and jst.

/be

Comment 4

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 5

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Site no longer exists and redirects to http://www.techmahindra.com. Closing.