[17153] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.15: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Sep 8 10:01:23 1999
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To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:57:11 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 10:01:14 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
I'm still having me problem. When I enter something like "cnn" in the
location field, I get mapped to something like: http://web.mit.edu/
search.htmlkeyword/cnn and error 403. Forbidden - bad locker name
This only occurs with Athena's Netscape and did not happen before the recent
release.
Roger
> We have been experimenting with changes to the search URLS, some of which
> had unforeseen consequences and needed to be removed. After the infoagents
> locker is updated, late tonight, you should find that all search functions
> now work the way they originally did.
>
> However, the problem you describe below takes a little work to eradicate
> on your end. This change was in preferences.js - it was removed from the
> global settings several days ago, but is still lingering in your local
> preferences file. 'netscape-fix' will not remove this line YET - I'm
> making that change now. Until that time, the fix is to remove any line
> in your preferences.js which starts
> user_prefs("network.search.url" ...
>
> Just remove that line completely. We should never have specified one.
>
> -Todd Belton
>
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>
> > System name: rar.mit.edu
> > Type and version: SPARC/5 8.3.15 (with mkserv)
> > Display type: cgsix
> >
> > Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
> > Window manager: mwm
> >
> > What were you trying to do?
> > Trying to go to a web page with just a short name by entering
> > the name in the location field.
> >
> > What's wrong:
> > The search has been changed to somehow look for:
> > http://web.mit.edu/search.htmlkeyword/xxxxx
> > where xxxxx is the site I was looking for (e.g. cnn)
> >
> > What should have happened:
> > In all other Netscapes (Mac, NT) it will find the web page
> > without fully qualifying it. This is a major step back. This
> > used to work just fine on Athena until the recent release.
> >
> > Please describe any relevant documentation references:
> > I could not see any notice of this change.
>
