Closed Bug 6193 Opened 25 years ago Closed 25 years ago

NECKO: M5 Mozilla will not load Yahoo! News Stories links on Yahoo main page

Categories

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: thully, Assigned: gagan)

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Details

Kernel 2.2.6, Mozilla M5, KDE 1.1, Red Hat 5.2

Yahoo! News stories Links on the main Yahoo! page will not load when clicked in
Mozilla M5.
Assignee: rickg → joki
Well it looks like the problem is with the url being given which is something
like '/homer/?http://...'.  Looking further to see if I'm munging the URL or if
this is a netlib problem.
Assignee: joki → gagan
The problem seems to be in NS_MakeAbsoluteURL.  Reassigning to netlib.
With the latest Linux Build (1999063008), I can't reproduce the problem
described. Clicking on the New stories link goes to correct page.
Pushed past necko landing...
Summary: M5 Mozilla will not load Yahoo! News Stories links on Yahoo main page → NECKO: M5 Mozilla will not load Yahoo! News Stories links on Yahoo main page
Pl. verify with Necko.
Windows NT 4  build 7/25/08
My Netscape seems to have the same problem.  Clicking on any of the links in
the Netcenter Apps box yields "Error Loading URL http://"  I looked at the
source from the page and the markup looks like this:
 <A HREF="z.t?cp=myna/http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail/index.html">
Known problem with parsing. Marking for M10.
Target Milestone: M9 → M10
Assignee: gagan → kipp
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Kipp wants to help. Kipp: from what I see we are parsing for :// and since this
is a relative link that portion throws off our logic. So we first need to check
for ? to detect any random characters after it as query. Let me know if you need
more help.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M10 → M11
Can you explain what all the '?' cases are for nsStdURL::Parse? I don't recall ?
being allowed in so many places...thanks
Once more, with gagan on the cc list:

Can you explain what all the '?' cases are for nsStdURL::Parse? I don't recall ?
being allowed in so many places...thanks
Assignee: kipp → gagan
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Ok, I've done *some* work to make the url parsing work better. I updated urltest
to test the cases implied by this bug and they seem to work (note: there are a
few test cases in urltest that don't pass -- try "urltest -abs foo" to see
them).

Basically I made it so that "abc;param?query#ref" will always parse with "#"
taking precedence over "?" which takes precedence over ";". Therefore, if there
are funny characters in refs or queries, they will retain them. Which makes this
sort of thing: "?http://one-two-three;hello" do the "right" thing. It's not
clear if the ref handling is exactly right, however.
*** Bug 14697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
can this be marked fixed
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
links to news stories off www.yahoo.com work for me on 11/5 linux and win32
builds.  marking fixed.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
With the Nov 15th Linux build, this problem is fixed.
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