412869 - discussions don't work in Safari

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 375463

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Christian Höltje]

What Happened:
  I logged into AMO using Safari.  I went to my extension (It's All Text!) and started to respond to the discussion threads there.

  However, when I submitted a response, I was sent to this URL:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/discussions/post.php

  I ran FF3b2 and it is able to reply to discussion topics easily.

What I Expected:
  Safari shouldn't be prevented from working on AMO, even if it's not the mozilla browser.

Ciao!

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I haven't investigated the issue yet, but please at least rest assured that there is no intention to exclude any browser from accessing AMO :)

Comment 2

[Christian Höltje]

I would like to apologize; In trying to make my report as accurate as possible I implied that AMO might be excluding Safari.

I was trying to be factual, not to imply any malice or assign any blame.

I'm sorry.  I have talked with several AMO people as well as other Mozilla people and they are all decent people who wouldn't do something like that.

Comment 3

[Christian Höltje]

I noticed these bugs, which I think might be related:

Bug 374048 - discussion redirects in a way that upsets Konqueror

Bug 375463 – http -> https redirection problem

Bug 399947 – http -> https redirection problem

Bug 407141 – http -> https redirection problem

In fact, I think these should all be marked as a duplicate and should probably be fixed.  There is a comment on bug 375463 that says that it's because the discussion pages don't use the magic proxy detection code, whatever that is.

Ciao!

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I would like to apologize; In trying to make my report as accurate as possible
> I implied that AMO might be excluding Safari.

Don't worry: No offense taken!