440991 - fedexkinkos.com - Cannot upload file (site relies on full path information no longer available in Gecko 1.9.x browsers)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Michael Swanson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

Gives a bad file name error.  Does not happen in other Firefox releases or IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. https://printonline.fedexkinkos.com/StartNewJob.do
2. Browse
3. Add file to job list
Actual Results:  
Gives a bad file name error.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox3 only sends the filename and not anymore path\filename for privacy reasons. This could lead to an error but must be fixed on the site.

Please ask the site owner why this fails in Firefox3 (you could tell him that Firefox3 only sends the filename with v3)

Comment 2

[Michael Swanson]

I called FEDEX and they reported the bug.  It is not expected to be fixed in the near future.  There should be a switch in Firefox to support these sites.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

sorry, it's invalid or better a dupe of an invalid bug

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like we should be evangelizing fedex here.

Comment 5

[Alex Henrie]

I just tried the FedEx page and it worked flawlessly in Firefox 3.5. I can only assume that FedEx has fixed the problem.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Someone should try this in Firefox 3.0.x and a Camino trunk nightly, too. Wouldn't hurt if someone checked it with a SeaMonkey 2.x nightly either.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

mcsmurf says this works in a Seamonkey 2.x nightly, and it works for me in a Camino 2.x nightly, so I think it's safe to call this FIXED for Gecko 1.9.x browsers. (According to comment 0 and comment 1, it shouldn't ever have been a problem in earlier Gecko browsers.)