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Ticket #94 (Fixed)Mon Nov 20 16:55:42 UTC 2006

Broken links on Forum page

Reported by: Martin Avison (27) Severity: Major
Part: Legacy: RForum (old forum engine) Release:
Milestone: Status Fixed

Details by Martin Avison (27):

None of the links on the Forum page are valid eg

pond.org.uk/1
pond.org.uk/2
etc

Changelog:

Modified by Steve Revill (20) Mon, November 20 2006 - 17:38:49 GMT

Which browser (version) are you using (and which OS)?

Modified by Martin Avison (27) Mon, November 20 2006 - 20:24:31 GMT

Latest (sic) Oregano2 v2.2.18 rev 3
RISC OS v5.11

Modified by Andrew Hodgkinson (6) Mon, November 20 2006 - 23:29:48 GMT

  • Release changed from Prototype site to First public site release

Thanks for the report, but I’m not sure which links you mean. The HTML looks fine, so maybe I’m missing the point – or maybe it’s a RISC OS browser issue. Could you please give the URL of a page which contains broken links, then indicate which link(s) on that page are wrong? Thanks.

I got a bit bloody minded with the HTML and CSS combo on the site :-) – It was impossible to get decent rendering out of one RISC OS browser without breaking another; they pretty much all looked ugly whatever you did. Bit of a sad state of affairs. A very old internal O3 release at Castle does OK but nobody else has it :-) so in the end I decided I’d aim at Netsurf. It’s free, after all.

If you can give more specific details about broken links I’ll see if I can work out what’s wrong. If it’s a browser bug in O2, I’ll certainly try to make it work, but the standing recommendation is for Netsurf if browsing on RISC OS right now.

Modified by Martin Avison (27) Tue, November 21 2006 - 20:02:11 GMT

The page url is
pond.org.uk/rails/rforum/

The links are the ones with text ‘Announcements’, ‘Wish Lists’, etc (ie the Forum names)

Hmm … this is odd. The links displayed when hovering over the text are pond.org.uk/rails/rforum/forum/1 (and 2,3,4,5,6)

but the link displayed in the error ‘page req was not available’ from O2 are
pond.org.uk/1 (and 2-6)

which is correct I do not know, but it does not work!

Modified by Andrew Hodgkinson (6) Wed, November 22 2006 - 22:31:04 GMT

  • Status changed from Open to Fixed

Curious bug. The “empty forum” page was being returned with a status code of 404, which is rendered as normal in most browsers but produces a dialogue box instead in O2. The odd URL it displays in that dialogue box is erroneous – it’s not the URL it was trying to fetch.

Fixed in Changeset #149, with some uncertainties described in the changelog.

Modified by Andrew Hodgkinson (6) Wed, November 22 2006 - 22:35:07 GMT

Updated tarball generated.

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