291102 - Redirection is not working

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Arabic, defect)

Description

[Amer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Whene you goto the site: http://www.okaz.com.sa 
(which it is a site for a local newspaper) it should open to display like a logo
for the site and then it should redirect you to another page for the current
news date. But with Firefox the redirection does not happen and it just stay on
the oppening page.

This problem is also true when using Firefox version for Mac OSX not just in
Windows XP.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.okaz.com.sa
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Actual Results:  
Open the site and just stay on the opening page.

Expected Results:  
Redirected to another page in the site automaticaly.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's easy :

 	<script language=vbscript>
document.location.href="http://www.okaz.com.sa/okaz/Data/2005/4/20/Section_0.xml"
	</script>

This site doesn't use redirection with a META tag or a HTTP-header, but with a
script. Unfortunately it's in VBscript (Visual Basic), and that's only supported
in Internet Explorer. If they want to use scripting for this, they should use
Javascript, which is supported by all browsers. Using a <script> instead of
<script language=vbscript> should be enough.
.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Dead URL