407267 - Links open in French

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Greg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/1.5.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 Camino/ 1.5.4               

Clik on "use skype" or "business" and you get French. Clik on "shop" and you get redirect loop.  I talked to skype & they said try other browser, so I went back to Safari and it worked fine.
Camino won't open a link to triptik in BCAA.com.  Safari does.
I've used Camino for a very long time and downloaded the new version today.  These problems exist on both the old & new versions.   I really like Camino, so I'm just trying to help.  Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Described above.
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Comment 1

[Greg]

This is the url for the Skype problem.  I thought it would show up because I typed it in the requested spot.

https://secure.skype.com/store/myaccount

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

When you go to

http://gemal.dk/browserspy/accept.php

what does it say after "Languages accepted" ?

cl

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

Could you answer the question in comment 2 please?

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

From email (Greg, in the future please post responses in bugs, rather than sending private emails), the top of the language list is:
en-US
en;q=0.9
fr;q=0.9
...

So within our ability to work around their bug, this is a duplicate of bug 391297, so it won't happen in 1.6. You should complain to Skype though, as the fundamental problem is that they are ignoring en-US (and probably other dialect codes) in the accept-languages list even though it is a completely valid language code, and they really need to fix that on their server.

In the likely event that they don't fix it in a timely manner, you can work around this now by removing at least 5 or 6 languages that you don't actually speak from the list in the International pane of System Preferences, then relaunching Camino.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #4)
>You should complain to Skype though, as the
> fundamental problem is that they are ignoring en-US (and probably other dialect
> codes) in the accept-languages list even though it is a completely valid
> language code, and they really need to fix that on their server.

Since this isn't strictly a duplicate of that bug, and it's something that can be evangelised, I'm gonna kick this to TE in the hopes that we can put some pressure on Skype to actually fix this.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Confirming, since it definitely happens.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.