Closed Bug 303592 Opened 19 years ago Closed 18 years ago

cobitonline.info - Incorrect link code redirects to CBS

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: jjenkins, Assigned: zsinj)

References

(
URL
)

Details

(Whiteboard: not-responsive) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Make sure cookies are off when you follow the link.
There is a line:
For more information about enabling cookies, please click here.
When I click the link it takes me to CBS's main page. (I have never been here
before and just had a reroll so I am fairly confident this is some sort of cache
issue).  When I look at the link properties it uses some sort of internal
redirect (I am not a web dev, but I am a geek) I think it sees the refernce
"http://sections/LoginFaq.htm" and recognizes it to a different site pushing to
CBS. Why CBS I have no Idea as I noted earlier never been there. maybe you have
the browser set to forward to CBS when it hits badly coded pages to ensure you
can filter out these bad POBKAC bug reports.

Havent tried a different workstation as no one else is running Firefox. Dispite
my trying to convince.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.See Details
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Actual Results:  
See Details

Expected Results:  
not sure 

no crash
When I try to go to the incorrect URL http://sections/LoginFaq.htm with Deer
Park a2 i get redirected to http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml,
Google's 'I'm Feeling Lucky' choice for 'sections'. This is by design, see bugs
like bug 233541 and bug 275957. The correct URL is (probably)
http://www.cobitonline.info/sections/LoginFaq.htm.
The error is in the website, <http://sections/LoginFaq.htm> isn't a valid URL.
Well, it's valid, but it doesn't go where the author intended to go.
Component: General → English US
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
Revised summary.
Summary: It rejects wanting cookies enable. Then redirects unlike the other browser → cobitonline.info - Incorrect link code redirects to CBS
Self assigning Tech Evang.
Target: January.
First letter sent to help@cobitonline.info: 11/1/2005
Assignee: nobody → wbzsinj
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P4
Target Milestone: --- → Jan
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Severity: trivial → normal
OS: Windows XP → All
Google search now points to http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/sections.jsp, however this is still valid. Sending 2nd email to same address on 02/20/06.
Target Milestone: Jan → Apr
Site has not returned emails nor fixed the link. Setting target to Future and status whiteboard as necessary.
Whiteboard: not-responsive
Target Milestone: Apr → Future
QA Contact: general → english-us
Sent another email because I felt optimistic about bugs I still have open.
They finally fixed it! The link now correctly links to http://www.cobitonline.info/sections/LoginFaq.htm

<- FIXED
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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