274686 - With Mozilla 1.8a5 cannot POST or REPLY to forum postings at atlantafreenet.org

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

Using 1.8a5 I am not able to post or to reply to posts on the forum at
http://atlantafreenet.org.  This works fine on 1.7.3 and on IE6.  Yes,  I have
cookies and popups enabled for this site.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://atlantafreenet.org
2. Login to the FORUM.
3. Pick a forum topic and try to respond to the topic.  I get a repeat login
screen and can go no further.  This even though I am already logged in.

Actual Results:  
see above.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Joe, can you possibly narrow down when this broke, using th e 1.8a1-1.8a5
release builds and nightlys from http://archive.mozilla.org?

Comment 2

[Joe Mehaffey]

The info from the ABOUT feature under HELP is:
Mozilla 1.8a6
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

I am having a few other problems of late as well with the new versions.  I have
also been unable to access www.weather.com on one computer but on two others it
works fine.  On the Dell 8200 laptop where I cannot load weather.com, I have
tried creating a NEW PROFILE and with the NEW profile,  I can access
www.weather.com just fine.  But then I go back to the ORIGINAL profile and I get
an oscillation between
http://www.w2.weather.com/common/jump3.html?/weather/local/30534?
and
http://www.w2.weather.com/common/jump.html?/weather/local/30534?
and a page never shows up.  Maybe there is an obscure profile element
compatibility difference bewteen 1.7.1 which was working fine on my laptop and
1.7.5 (not working) and 1.8.a.6 (not working).  If anyone can suggest what to
try dumping from the profile to try and isolate this further,  I am fine with
helping out.
Thanks
Joe Mehaffey

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Joe, let's keep this bug focused on the original problem...

Does the clean profile also have trouble on the atlantafreenet.org page?

Comment 4

[Joe Mehaffey]

Yes, I tested atlantafreenet.org posting to the forum and with the new profile,
I can post just fine.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

OK.  If you copy your prefs.js from the old profile to the new, does the site break?

If so, can you find which exact pref breaks it?

Comment 6

[Joe Mehaffey]

a rep from weather.com sent me an email and asked if they had fixed their
website so my particular Mozilla would work with it.  In fact, not Mozilla does
indeed work fine with weather.com both my OLD profile and my fresh NEW profile.
 (Previously,  the OLD profile would not allow access to weather.com but the new
profile would work fine.  I have asked the engineer at weather.com to tell me
what they changed to make my OLD profile work.  If I get info,  I will add
additional comments here.

I still have both the OLD and the NEW profile working on my laptop.  I have
given up trying to figure out why the OLD profile cannot a) log into Yahoo.com,
 b) cannot access the forum on atlantafreenet.org and just started using the NEW
PROFILE.  If anyone has any thoughts on what I might check in the old profile, 
for the problems,  I will be happy to test.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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