Issues with links from posted notices failing in Firefox 1.0
Hi All, I don't think I am the only one with this problem, but I have yet to see this being discussed here... In Firefox 1.0 links to recently posted extexts from the posted mailing list such as: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14980 fail. I see an error: Files Lookup I see no such file here! (1/4/9/8/14980) The links work perfectly well in IE6. The links start to work in Firefox a few days after a project is posted, but it's very frustrating to not be able to send links to others without knowing whether they will fail or not. There is a discussion at DP on this issue here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109131#109131 Some users say if they change the skin back to the default, links work OK again. No such luck for me. Thanks in advance, P -- Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net "Preserving history one page at a time."
Pauline wrote:
In Firefox 1.0 links to recently posted extexts from the posted mailing list such as: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14980
fail. I see an error:
Files Lookup
I see no such file here! (1/4/9/8/14980)
The links work perfectly well in IE6.
I'm using Firefox 1.0 (Linux) for development. I don't have any such problems. Are you using some web filtering proxy? Did you try http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/9/8/14980/ with a trailing slash? (which, by the way, is the correct url for a directory) Can you install the HTTP Live Headers Plugin and send me a dump of the request your browser is generating?
There is a discussion at DP on this issue here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109131#109131
That's fine, because my DP account somehow got removed.
Some users say if they change the skin back to the default, links work OK again. No such luck for me.
Skins have nothing to do with that. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
Hiya Marcello, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
I'm using Firefox 1.0 (Linux) for development. I don't have any such problems.
Are you using some web filtering proxy?
Nope.
Did you try
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/4/9/8/14980/
with a trailing slash? (which, by the way, is the correct url for a directory)
I'm using the urls which appear in the PG posted notices e.g. Friedrich v. Schiller's Biographie, by H. Doering 14997 [Language: German] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/9/14997 ] [Files: 14997-8.txt]
Can you install the HTTP Live Headers Plugin and send me a dump of the request your browser is generating?
I can, but whatever the problem was I cannot reproduce it today. Looks like it has been fixed & interestingly enough, when I click on a link without a trailing /, the redirected URL has one tacked on the end. e.g. http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/9/14994 becomes: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/9/14994/ in the browser address bar.
There is a discussion at DP on this issue here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109131#109131
That's fine, because my DP account somehow got removed.
I see an account for you (I'm a DP site admin). If you have hassles logging in, email dphelp@pgdp.net. I'll post to that thread & see if this issue is now resolved for the other users.
Some users say if they change the skin back to the default, links work OK again. No such luck for me.
Skins have nothing to do with that.
One of those weird coincidence things then. :) Thanks, P
Pauline wrote:
In Firefox 1.0 links to recently posted extexts from the posted mailing list such as: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14980
fail. I see an error:
Files Lookup
I see no such file here! (1/4/9/8/14980)
Also, I noticed that the posting note gets sent *before* the files are posted. In that case the error message you get is quite appropriate. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Pauline wrote:
In Firefox 1.0 links to recently posted extexts from the posted mailing list such as: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/9/8/14980
fail. I see an error:
Files Lookup
I see no such file here! (1/4/9/8/14980)
Also, I noticed that the posting note gets sent *before* the files are posted. In that case the error message you get is quite appropriate.
I realise that. But the links were working fine in IE, just not in Firefox. The error message for a pre-emptive posting note is different & fails in all browsers. Whatever the problem was, it's fixed today for me. Thanks, P
eBook 14999 was posted today, as was eBook 15001 :) What about the one in between?? Frank
Pauline wrote:
Marcello Perathoner wrote:
Also, I noticed that the posting note gets sent *before* the files are posted. In that case the error message you get is quite appropriate.
I realise that. But the links were working fine in IE, just not in Firefox. The error message for a pre-emptive posting note is different & fails in all browsers.
Whatever the problem was, it's fixed today for me.
I spoke too soon. The links work ok from a link in email, they fail when opened as a link from another web page. e.g. from within a DP Forum post. They also seem to work ok if you cut & paste the URL directly into a browser window as I am doing for IE. Also - I see recursive redirects behaviour in Firefox for this links like: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14908/14908-h/14908-h.htm in IE I am presented with the HTML version of the text, in Firefox I get sent to: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14908 & clicking on the HTML link from the catalogue page which results in Firefox just winds up back at the catalogue page. There is an explanation of this behaviour on the DP Forums here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109273#109273 I'm happy to help debug off-list if needed, I'll go & install that Firefox extension installed. Contact me if you want my help, or you can track the discussion on the DP Forums. Needless to say navigating PG as a Firefox user is v. frustrating at the moment. Thanks, P
Pauline <servalan@ar.com.au> writes
I spoke too soon. The links work ok from a link in email, they fail when opened as a link from another web page. e.g. from within a DP Forum post. They also seem to work ok if you cut & paste the URL directly into a browser window as I am doing for IE.
Also - I see recursive redirects behaviour in Firefox for this links like: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/9/0/14908/14908-h/14908-h.htm
in IE I am presented with the HTML version of the text, in Firefox I get sent to: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14908
& clicking on the HTML link from the catalogue page which results in Firefox just winds up back at the catalogue page. There is an explanation of this behaviour on the DP Forums here: http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=109273#109273
I'm happy to help debug off-list if needed, I'll go & install that Firefox extension installed. Contact me if you want my help, or you can track the discussion on the DP Forums.
Needless to say navigating PG as a Firefox user is v. frustrating at the moment.
Check what kind of HTTP_REFERER value, if any, your Firefox is configured to send to a web server. I believe Firefox uses the term 'network.http.sendRefererHeader' for this in its configuration options. -- Philip Baker
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