Closed Bug 441085 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Adding the search engine for reference.com is broken

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: justinkoavf, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

If you add reference.com as a search engine, it has malformed search URLs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to reference.com - make sure that it is not already added as one of your search engines.
2.You will note that it can be added; do so.
3.Enter any search query with this engine. The example I have presented is "SEARCH."


Actual Results:  
URLs in the form of:

http://www.reference.com/browse/SEARCH?r=77

which redirects to:

http://www.reference.com/search?q=?r=77

Expected Results:  
Searches should generate URLs of the type:

http://www.reference.com/search?q=SEARCH

Also, please close Bug 158732 - a feature request to add dictionary.com as a search engine; it is now a default setting.
That site's OpenSearch description has:

<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://www.reference.com/browse/{searchTerms}?r=77"/>

Which means that we load:

http://www.reference.com/browse/SEARCH?r=77

when you try to search for "SEARCH". The doesn't return useful results, so this is a problem with the site's OpenSearch description. Looks like it should be using something like:

<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="http://www.reference.com/search?q={searchTerms}"/>

The OpenSearch plugin doesn't work in IE7 either.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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