Web-news reader generates wrong links

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 11:41:21 PDT 2011


On 6/22/11, Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>

The last time I reported this Walter couldn't recreate the bug either.
I think he might have used IE. Are you using Firefox by any chance?


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