287931 - walkingworld.com - Login does not work on this site with Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Michael Graubart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050326
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050326

On the home page of the given site (on which I previously joined and specified
my e-mail address and password), if I enter my e-mail address and password and
click 'Go', nothing happens.

In Safari and Internet Explorer, logging in works normally.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the given URL.
2. Click 'Join'.
3. Enter required details and a suitable password.
4. Quit.
5. Revisit the site.
6. Enter the previously-specified e-mail address and password.
7. Click 'Go'.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
The login details should have been accepted and a new page should have opened.
(This does happen with IE and Safari.)

eMac G4, OS 10.3.8.  Classic theme.

Comment 1

[Michael Graubart]

If, having failed to log in, I click on 'My Walking World', there is a new pair
of login panes — and here the login procedure does work. It is only on the home
page that it fails.

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

This site uses "this.loginForm" to refer to the login form, it needs to use
"document.loginForm" like it does in another JS function on that page. "this"
refers to window, not to document, IE (and Safari then?) seem to set
window=document here.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: How did you get to the URL mentioned? If i surf to
http://www.walkingworld.com i get redirected to http://www.walkingworld.com and
there the login works.

Comment 4

[Michael Graubart]

Re: Comment #3: I confess I am totally mystified! First of all, Comment #3 talks
about being redirected from one URL to another, but the two URLs quoted in the
comment are identical. Secondly, and more importantly, whether I use
<http://www.walkingworld.com/home/index.asp?id=1&nid=93> or just
<http://www.walkingworld.com>, the login now works! Apologies if this was a red
herring; but Comment #2 does indicate that there is something wrong with the site.

Comment 5

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I meant http://www.walkingworld.com redirects to
http://www.walkingworld.com/home/index.asp :)