Web-news reader generates wrong links

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 22 11:27:43 PDT 2011


On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:12:12 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Example page:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=93706
>
> If you click on the first "Re" link, you'll get redirected here:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=D.gnu&article_id=93711
>
> But that link should be:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=93711
>
> The link has the wrong "art_group" value, it seems to set it to
> `D.gnu` all the time instead of wherever the original post originated
> from, in this case `digitalmars.D`.

This does not happen to me, but I think I've seen it before.  I think it  
has to do with some sort of cookie that webnews uses.

Try going to the main page (with all the threads), and then go back to  
that specific one, I think it will work.

-Steve


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