[17154] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.15: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Sep 8 11:29:03 1999
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:28:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Roger A. Roach wrote:
> I'm still having my 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
Right. Whereas I type 'cnn' in the Location field (same OS and Athena
release as you), and it takes me to www.cnn.com just fine, and as far as I
know, always has. It occurred to me yesterday that I had never seen any
problems with this, but I couldn't be sure, and since I'm working with an
infoagents locker that's usually "a day ahead" of everybody, I wanted to
wait a day to see.
So. We've backed out one search change and repaired another that should
never have been changed, but neither affects this problem. I discussed
the problem with Debby Levinson of CWIS yesterday evening and she noted
that she had been having the same problem on her Mac, and had traced it to
the Internet Keywords setting being turned off. Problem is, I never have
it on - long before the standard preferences disabled it by default, I
turned it off by hand.
If you are feeling up to it, you might want to change the "Enable Internet
Keywords" setting (it's in Preferences|Navigator|Smart Browsing) and see
if that affects anything. Meanwhile we are continuing to look into this.
At least now I know you're not the only person who's been seeing it,
although so far you're the only one to report it for Unix versions.
I'm cc'ing this to web-agents to see who else has seen it.
-Todd
