48843 - relative URL redirection does not work properly

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 48200

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Frank de Lange]

On some sites, relative URL redirection does not work properly. The given URL (a
MHonArc-generated mailing list for the Linux kernel) is an example of this. The
base url for this page is:

http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0008_02/

(the page does NOT contain a 'basename=' statement)

this page contains relative links to articles, like this one:

[A NAME="00000" HREF="msg00000.html]"Re: RFC: design for new VM[/A]

This should make the browser request the folling URL:

http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0008_02/msg00000.html

Instead, it requests this URL:

http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/msg00000.html

Notice it cuts of the last directory? Of course, this leads to a 'not found' or
404 error. Tested with latest CVS pull (20000813)

Comment 1

[Frank de Lange]

EXTRA INFO TO RECREATE BUG:

This seems to be a little more complicates. When going to the URL mentioned in
the report, everything seems to work OK. However, when you first go to:

http://www.kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/

and then click on one of the archives (take Aug 2000 - Week 2 to get to the URL
mentioned in the report), the bug becomes apperent. Click on any of the articles
in the resulting page to see it in action, ot hover over them and view the URL
in the statusbar (and notice the missing directory).

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

not seeing this on win32, could you use a nightly build and see if this happens?

Comment 3

[Frank de Lange]

I just tested it with a fresh nightly (2000081309, Linux), and the bug DOES
occur. I removed the .mozilla directory to start everything from scratch, so
this is not a configuration issue:

Not Found The requested URL /lnxlists/linux-kernel/msg01133.html was not found
on this server.

notice the missing directory name...

Comment 4

[Jeffrey Baker]

I can confirm on Linux.  However this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48200 ***

Comment 5

[Rann Bar-On]

verif dup