268170 - missing category on links to next page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Ulf Uhrmann]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.54 (Windows NT 5.0; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: 

I noticed this on http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?
category=Miscellaneous - i clicked on "next" at bottom of the page and got page 
2 of "all extensions". Guess it appears at every multiple page list.
Reason: link is http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?pageid=2, but 
must be http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?
category=Miscellaneous&pageid=2

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Don't block cookies from update.mozilla.org and it should work, reopen if it
doesn't.

See http://update.mozilla.org/faq/ for more.

Comment 2

[Ulf Uhrmann]

What the hell is this for a way of site navigation? Why do I have to allow 
cookies for this? Adding "category=xyz" to url works with every browser in every 
configuration. Using cookies for tracing of category is disadvantageous.

Nowadays nearly every server sets cookies (most of them are not really 
necessary) like a shotgun or rapid fire gun, therefore in my preferences cookies 
are allowed for a few domains only. And I bet I am not the only one.

So why use cookies for this instead of a simple cookie-block-aware url 
parameter? ...which is implemented, but not used...