261564 - Set home group to include URL that changes on display

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Christie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

I would like to be able to set a URL in a home group where the URL is not the
URL displayed after a redirect.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Here is an example situation in which I cannot set the home group as I want to.

1. Start a browser session and create two tabs in that session.  Bring up a URL
that does a redirect, thus changing the URL you entered to something else.
2. Got to Edit->Preferences->Navigator and choose Use Current Group for home group.
3. As far as I can see, it is impossible to make the home group reflect the URL
prior to the redirect.  It's possible to make a bookmark with the correct URL,
since you can edit bookmark properties, but I can't see how to do this for a
home group.


The reason this is an issue is that a page I want to include in the home group
has a URL that includes a login code.  When the page displays, it changes the
URL to a derived URL that doesn't include this code.  Using this URL (i.e. the
URL that actually gets included in the home group) doesn't log me in, with the
result that I have to log in each session.  I'd like to build the login into the
home group so I am automatically logged in.

In case this isn't clear enough, the situation is this:

http://foo.bar.com?mylogin=12345

is the URL I want in the home group.  On accessing that URL, foo.bar.com logs me
in and changes the displayed URL to 

http://foo.bar.com/workingpage.asp

When I start a new session, the above URL does not log me in.

Comment 1

[Mike Christie]

I have since found out that you can do this by opening up about:config in the
browser and searching for "home"; the various "browser.startup.homepage.[n]"
values can then be directly edited.