[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    [Fwd: Bug#1789: kfm: www.excite.com redirection fails - kfm strips url
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-08-22 11:47:20
[Download RAW message or body]

Hi kfm-developers !

For those who are not subscribed to kde-bugs-dist I would like to
forward the following report since I saw that something regarding /'s
has been touched in the CVS just recently.

Harri.

Received: from rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de (rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de [134.28.200.14])
	by hp00.rz.tu-harburg.de (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA26661
	for <smhp2803@hp00.rz.tu-harburg.de>; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:03:24 +0200 (METDST)
Received: from max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.170.93])
	by rztsun.rz.tu-harburg.de (8.9.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10155
	for <porten@tu-harburg.de>; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:03:23 +0200 (MET DST)
Received: by max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de id <S772747AbPHVLDM>; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:03:12 +0200
Subject: Bug#1789: kfm: www.excite.com redirection fails - kfm strips url characters?
Reply-To: Matthew Levine <mlevine@cisco.com>,
        1789@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Resent-From: Matthew Levine <mlevine@cisco.com>
Resent-To: kde-bugs-dist@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Resent-CC: David Faure <faure@kde.org>
Resent-Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:03:01 GMT
Resent-Message-ID: <handler.1789.B.93531962015070@bugs.kde.org>
Resent-Fake-Sender: coolo@kde.org
X-KDE-PR-Message: report 1789
X-KDE-PR-Package: kfm
X-Loop: owner@bugs.kde.org
From: Matthew Levine <mlevine@cisco.com>
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc
To: submit@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Date: 	Sun, 22 Aug 1999 03:29:22 -0700
X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.20]
Content-Type: 	text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-Id: <99082203563800.17405@dogfish>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Old-Return-Path: <bugs@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
X-Orcpt: rfc822;kde-bugs-dist@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Resent-Reply-To: kde-bugs-dist@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
X-Mailing-List: <kde-bugs-dist@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> archive/latest/629
X-Loop: kde-bugs-dist@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Precedence: list
Resent-Sender: kde-bugs-dist-request@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000

Package: kfm
Version: 1.1.1

Kfm has problems with Excite (http://www.excite.com) and its start page sign-in
process.  You can customize your Excite start page and sign in to Excite to
access your custom start page.  When you sign in, you get a cookie and the sign
in process redirects you back to http://www.excite.com/? (although the question
mark does not seem to be necessary).  Since you have a cookie installed, your
custom page comes up from that time after until the cookie expires/removed
simply by pointing to www.excite.com - sign-in is no longer necessary. 
However, upon redirection, kfm strips out a '/' character and the redirection
url becomes  http:/www.excite.com/ (notice that the second slash in the http://
is now missing).  This causes kfm to fail to load your custom page because the
url is not valid.

Steps to reproduce:

0. Register with Excite (if you haven't already).  This is free and you don't
really need to customize anything.  You just need to have a valid user/pass to
sign in with.

1. Login to Excite with your user/pass from step 0.  Click on 'Sign In' at the
top of the page.

2. Observe that kfm (after redirection) will try to load http:/www.excite.com/
and fail complaining about an invalid URL.

Suggestion:  If there is code which prevents double slashes in path names, this
may also be stipping the second slash from the http:// prefix.  There is no
need to strip those slashes as servers (and kfm) can handle redundant slashes no
matter how improper they may look.

Installation information:

[mlevine@dogfish Graphics]# uname -a
Linux dogfish 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr 19 22:21:09 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
[mlevine@dogfish Graphics]# rpm -q kdebase
kdebase-1.1.1-1
[mlevine@dogfish Graphics]# rpm -q libc
libc-5.3.12-31

This is an updated RedHat 6.0 installation.  I updated kdebase and kdelib
hoping this bug was fixed in those.

Thanks,
Matthew
--
---
------
Matthew Levine
Development Test (Consumer Line Of Business)
Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz	http://www.cisco.com/
mlevine@cisco.com	(831) 457 - 5431



[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]