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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Bug#1789: kfm: www.excite.com redirection fails - kfm strips url characters?]
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       1999-08-22 17:09:01
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Greetings,

On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Harri Porten wrote:
> 
> 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.

It looks like he has 1.1.1.  The problem was due to a bug in KURL rather than
kfm and it has already been fixed in current CVS.  The only reason I did not
close the bug report is because we still have problems cookie+redirection,
which was not indicated on this report, and we are trying to resolve that ...  

Regards,
Dawit A.

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Sun, 22 Aug 1999 13:03:12 +0200 > Subject: Bug#1789: kfm: www.excite.com
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> 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
> 
> 

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