275789 - Redirect to texturizer fail in IE and Opera (OK in Firefox)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Oliver Spiesshofer]

Links that are integrated into Thunderbird do not work with Opera.
There included are the links from the Help Menu "Help" - "Mozilla Thunderbird 
Help" and those from the "Thunderbird start page" that fills the preview window 
on start.

Clicking on those links result in the URL

http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/%3CNOSCRIPT%3E%3CMETA%20HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH%
20CONTENT=

(Thunderbird help from the menu)

or 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics%
3CNOSCRIPT%3E%3CMETA%20HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH%20CONTENT=

(Rss Link on the start page)

Comment 1

[Chris Blore]

I was able to duplicate this under Thunderbird 1.0 release build, Windows XP and
Opera 7.60 Preview 4. All other links from within Thunderbird work fine and this
is a problem confined only to where Opera is the default browser.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

confirming the issue, although I don't see it being 'fixed' in Tb.

Comment 3

[daneel]

Having the same problem with IE.

Windows XP SP2
Thunderbird 1.0
IE6

Comment 4

[daneel]

UPDATE: Looks like the problem is in the redirect code at

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird

When I enter this url in IE manually, I get the same problem.

Comment 5

[Doug Wright]

I'm in agreement with comment #4 on this having actually looked at the URLs in
comment 0.

Moving bug

Comment 6

[Doug Wright]

Apologies for spam

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

This is not a very big problem, since this will be fixed once that becomes an
actual page on mozilla.org. See bug 260737.

Comment 8

[Yan Morin]

Not a big problem but can be fixed very easily. 
 
In these kind of lines (example http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/) 
 
else { document.write("<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=\"0; 
URL=http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/"); } 
 
the webmaster should add \"> 
 
like 
 
else { document.write("<META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=\"0; 
URL=http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/\">"); } 
 
That's it.. Just close the meta tag. 

Comment 9

[Anne (:annevk)]

Done.