292141 - weareic.org - links from flash point at ./filename.html

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Chuck McCarrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

None of the Links work when using Mozilla Firefox.  I get the message:
Not Found
The requested URL /.\Mass Schedule.htm was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.weareic.org Port 80.

If I use Internet Explorer 6.0 they work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just go to http://www.weareic.org/
2.Click on any link
3.

Actual Results:  
Got error message:
Not Found
The requested URL /.\Parish Council.htm was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.weareic.org Port 80


Expected Results:  
First link should bring me to http://www.weareic.org/Parish%20Council.htm

If I enter the URL of the link into Mozilla's address bar, I do get the the
right page.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050419
Firefox/1.0.4

resummarizing

I suppose this involves some new form of idiot proofing we'd have to do?  It
only happens when the url is launched from flash, apparently IE has some form of
idiot proofing on this.  the other links in the page work fine.

almost moved it to tech evang...

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is tech evang, because those paths are incorrect. Trying to guess at what
people want is what causes headaches and unpredictable behavior in the long run.
The fact that IE does it doesn't me we should.

Chuck, think you could contact the site designer and let him know about the problem?

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Site no longer exists.