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IE and netscape 4.7 interpret a URL like "http:/cgi-bin/..." to be on the current host, and go to the /cgi-bin directory to get the script/whatever. Kmeleon tries to contact hostname "www.cgi-bin.com" and fails.
Since all of my daily work revolves around getting info from a website that has many links like the one above, kmeleon is useless to me at work. I'm not sure if this is a kmeleon bug or a mozilla bug.
If you fix this, please let me know adnd I'll give kmeleon another try.
Regards,
David MacBride
v2vc@unb.ca
uh... that's a webpage bug. http:/cgi-bin/ is not a valid uri. /cgi-bin/, on the other hand, is a valid link and works properly in k-meleon. You may want to contact whoever made that page and tell them it's broken.
Thanks for the reply Brian,
I'm willing to believe that it is a bad URI, but since it does work properly with IE and netscape, I don't think that the page maintainer (my boss) will be too open to modifying his code so it generates better HTML. I'm working on the replacement for that site, so I'll avoid the problem in the future.
just as a note, there seem to be quite a few cases where IE will 'assume' certain things in order to make a poorly written page function to some degree... one example is a site that had their servers default file type accidentally set to 'text/plain' instead of 'text/html'... predictably, k-meleon displayed the source in the browser window, but, somewhat surprisingly (to me, anyway) exploder actually rendered the page...
of course, all this ultimately does is make people careless (or worse, confuses them as to how they're SUPPOSED to be doing things).
two more of my cents =)
--- po
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Doesn't properly open URL like: http:/cgi-bin/...
Posted by:
David MacBride
Date: November 01, 2001 04:48PM
IE and netscape 4.7 interpret a URL like "http:/cgi-bin/..." to be on the current host, and go to the /cgi-bin directory to get the script/whatever. Kmeleon tries to contact hostname "www.cgi-bin.com" and fails.
Since all of my daily work revolves around getting info from a website that has many links like the one above, kmeleon is useless to me at work. I'm not sure if this is a kmeleon bug or a mozilla bug.
If you fix this, please let me know adnd I'll give kmeleon another try.
Regards,
David MacBride
v2vc@unb.ca
Re: Doesn't properly open URL like: http:/cgi-bin/
Posted by:
Brian
Date: November 01, 2001 08:11PM
uh... that's a webpage bug. http:/cgi-bin/ is not a valid uri. /cgi-bin/, on the other hand, is a valid link and works properly in k-meleon. You may want to contact whoever made that page and tell them it's broken.
Re: Doesn't properly open URL like: http:/cgi-bin/
Posted by:
David MacBride
Date: November 01, 2001 09:46PM
Thanks for the reply Brian,
I'm willing to believe that it is a bad URI, but since it does work properly with IE and netscape, I don't think that the page maintainer (my boss) will be too open to modifying his code so it generates better HTML. I'm working on the replacement for that site, so I'll avoid the problem in the future.
Re: Doesn't properly open URL like: http:/cgi-bin/
Posted by:
po
Date: November 02, 2001 12:24AM
just as a note, there seem to be quite a few cases where IE will 'assume' certain things in order to make a poorly written page function to some degree... one example is a site that had their servers default file type accidentally set to 'text/plain' instead of 'text/html'... predictably, k-meleon displayed the source in the browser window, but, somewhat surprisingly (to me, anyway) exploder actually rendered the page...
of course, all this ultimately does is make people careless (or worse, confuses them as to how they're SUPPOSED to be doing things).
two more of my cents =)
--- po
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