Web-news reader generates wrong links

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 22 18:13:29 PDT 2011


On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:21 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

I tested with opera, but I normally use firefox.  I think it has nothing  
to do with browser type.

-Steve


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