54950 - Link without any effect

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Jedi/Sector One]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test9 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001001
BuildID:    2000100109

Links are not followed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
			Click on any town (Paris, Bordeaux...) . The goreg() function is called but has no
effect and the frame content is never updated.				

Actual Results:  					Nothing		

Expected Results:  				Follow the link

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

The given URL contains four frames. The 3rd and 4th are subframes of the 2nd:


URL http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0_up.htm
    FRAME http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0_up.htm
    FRAME http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0_1.htm
        FRAME http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0_main.htm
        FRAME http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0_down.htm



The function goreg() in inside 1_0_main.htm: 


function goreg(url,region,sousregion)
{var adresse = 
'/ugc1/bin/setregion.pgi?region='+escape(region)+'&sousregion='+escape(sousregio
n)+'&url='+escape(url);
 parent.location=adresse;
}



So, it is trying to set parent.location to a relative URL from inside a frame. 
Therefore I think this might be a duplicate of bug 49312, which involves 
the same idea, only with window.location... 


But I will let the DOM experts decide. Reassigning to DOM Level 0 for 
further triage -

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

Oops - I included an extra "up" at the top of the HTML diagram above. 
Please ignore that; at the top should just be the given URL:
 
                 http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0.htm
 

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Using Mozilla binary 2000093009 on WinNT, 2000092909 on Linux.
Verifying bug on both; changing OS to "All".


More evidence for the diagnosis:


Using Mozilla, click on the link for the frame in question:

            http://www.ugc.fr/ugc1/html/1_0_main.htm


Then clicking on any link there seems to work. But if you use Mozilla on the
given parent URL, the same links (now appearing in a sub-frame) do not work.


NOTE: I have Mozilla set to disable cookies. If you don't do that,
      you may only get to see the parent URL once in its original state.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Hmm, tried on WinNT and Linux, branch and trunk, but no luck, WORKSFORME.