Web-news reader generates wrong links

Jesse Phillips jessekphillips+D at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 13:30:15 PDT 2011


Andrej Mitrovic 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`.
> 
> There are numerous examples like this that are linked from the dwiki
> page which have the wrong links generated for all the RE replies.

In my experience you can not be browsing multiple groups. You can reproduce the behavior by reading a message from digitalmars.D and then in another tab navigating to digitalmars.gnu and the going back to the article and clicking a link.


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