390010 - Relative address link does not work correctly

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[George Slusher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 Camino/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 Camino/1.5

Check the link "Info" in the box, below the popup menu, next to "Add an engraving." Camino does not render this relative address correctly, but Safari and Firefox do. It should go to

http://www.doversaddlery.com/article.asp?ai=67#nameplates

Camino gives:

http://www.doversaddlery.com/beveled-halter-plate---1-or-2-lines/p/X1-32315/cn/1672/article.asp?ai=67#nameplates

That's copied in pieces--I can't copy the link using the contextual menu--something seems to disable that feature for all the links on that page in Safari, Camino, and Firefox--perhaps they are scripts or something.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the page
2.Click on the link
3.
Actual Results:  
Goes to the site's home page

Expected Results:  
Should go to http://www.doversaddlery.com/article.asp?ai=67#nameplates

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

If I click on the link in the URL field, I'm redirected to a top-level page on the site, and the link works fine. However, if you were on the page you gave in the URL field, then the "incorrect" version you have listed above is the correct target for a relative link.

The site apparently didn't redirect you correctly, so the link didn't work; that's a site design issue.

Comment 2

[George Slusher]

Then, why does it work correctly in Safari, Firefox and iCab? That makes it a Camino issue, NOT a site design issue. Camino appends the relative URL to the page's URL; the others append it to the site's URL. (In reply to comment #1)

Comment 3

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #2)
That site is doing same browser detection; based on the UA string -and maybe depending on cookies- they redirect to different pages (URL's). Using Camino 1.5 and spoofing as Firefox gives the same resulting URLs as what the real fox gets.

As for not being able to copy that link (comment 0), they use some javascript to block the context menu.

Comment 4

[George Slusher]

(In reply to comment #3)

Thanks for the explanation. I will contact their webmaster and explain the problem. They are probably unaware of Camino.

Comment 5

[George Slusher]

I did more experiments. I found the same problem with Firefox and Safari if I started from the home page with cookies turned on, even if I deleted their cookies before starting. If I turned cookies off and deleted their cookies, it worked correctly. The problem seems to be in how they handle cookies.

Thanks, again, for your help.