[17157] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.15: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Sep 8 13:29:30 1999
Message-Id: <199909081729.NAA01632@rar.mit.edu>
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, web-agents@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:28:37 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 13:29:15 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Todd,
Fixed! I don't know how "Enable Internet Keywords" got turned on, but
turning it off solved my problem.
Thanks!
Roger
> 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
>
