273067 - Clicking a link to an image takes you to the same page the link is on instead of to the image

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

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Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=175850&sid=07db964dc861cd118828f54101274049
2. Click on the link to the image in the first post using the middle mouse
button (for a new tab).

Actual Results:  
The new tab opens the forum page instead of the image.


Repeat the process by clicking on the link to open it in the same window, and it
takes you to the forum page again.

If you open the page in a new window, it works correctly.  After I got it to
work, I could no longer reproduce the bug.

Comment 1

[Kevin Ar18]

I contacted the individual on the forum who was also able to reproduce this bug.
 Some conclusions:
1) It does not seem to be an issue where a profile from an old version is
causing issues.
He is using Firefox 1.0 and created a new profile using the -p option.
2) The issue does not seem to be extensions related.
I have none of the extensions that he has.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That's just rudimentary and not very effective but quite confusing
anti-hotlinking: if freewebs.com gets a request for an image, with a Referer:
header, they return a 302 Found pointing back to the referer. If someone was
trying to include an image hosted on freewebs.com in an HTML page hosted
elsewhere, that would just stop it from working with minimal cost to
freewebs.com, but a link directly to an image gets turned back on itself. Type
the URL or drag the link, you don't send a referer and you get to see the image.

Comment 3

[Kevin Ar18]

(In reply to comment #2)
> That's just rudimentary and not very effective but quite confusing
> anti-hotlinking: if freewebs.com gets a request for an image, with a Referer:
> header, they return a 302 Found pointing back to the referer. If someone was
> trying to include an image hosted on freewebs.com in an HTML page hosted
> elsewhere, that would just stop it from working with minimal cost to
> freewebs.com, but a link directly to an image gets turned back on itself. Type
> the URL or drag the link, you don't send a referer and you get to see the image.
Thank you for clearing it up.
Someone noted that he had the same problem in Maxthon:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1029004#1029004