266385 - [404] link to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/undefined when using NS 4.8

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[charles]

When visiting "www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/" using netscape 4.8 (windows) 
the "Free Download" link points to 
"http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/undefined" which brings up a 404 error.

If i visit with ie (yuck) the link points to 
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.10.1/Firefox%20Setup%
201.0PR.exe", which works fine if copied and pasted into netscape (although the 
%20's are unsightly and confusing).

For those who have avoided ie for years, it is unfortunate to need to resort to 
it to migrate to a new non-ms browser.

There are, of course, other layout problems with the page in netscape 4.8, but 
they are not as crippling.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

The dl links are script generated and NS 4.8 has problems with that script.
I see the following JS errors in the JS console of NS 4.8 (javascript:).

JavaScript Error:
http://www.mozilla.org/css/cavendish/content.css, line 28:

syntax error. 

document.tags.BODY.voiceFamily = "\"\\"}\\"\""
.......................................^

JavaScript Error:
http://www.mozilla.org/css/cavendish/template.css, line 15:

syntax error. 

document.ids.header.voiceFamily = "\"\\"}\\"\""
........................................^

JavaScript Error: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/,
line 72:

syntax error. 

  -->
....^

Please update the summary to reflect that (only) NS 4.x is affected. Bug 266009
seems the same but has no useful comments.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 266009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 267696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Fixed a few days ago (the new download script originally didn't work, but now does).

Comment 5

[charles]

Thanks David.  On most tries i get errors from a variety of sites:

http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/ said "404...The file
"/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox" does not exist!"

http://mozilla.xmundo.net/ said "file not found."

ftp://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/ said ftp error "There are too many connected
users, please try later."

http://mozilla.mirrors.skynet.be/ said "Bad Request...The request line contained
invalid characters following the protocol string."

But, it does work on some tries.  I found that puting %20's in for spaces made
it work on servers that failed at first.  Wouldn't underscores or hyphens be
more universally compatible than spaces?