[21384] in Athena Bugs
mozilla & websis on solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chris avrich)
Thu Jan 30 17:20:56 2003
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:20:52 -0500
From: chris avrich <cda@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-infoagents@mit.edu, websis-notify@mit.edu
Cc: kdorsey@mit.edu, olcsuper@mit.edu
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Hi,
A user came to OLC today with the following problem:
In trying to submit data in websis (e.g. entering the PE lottery),
mozilla believes it is downloading a file of type "application/x-sh",
and thus fails to submit the data. If he selects "open this file with
mozilla", a new mozilla window pops up and gives the same message.
I was forwarded this message by Angie Kelic regarding this problem:
> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:08:02 -0500
> From: Andrea M. Collins <andreab@MIT.EDU>
> To: Kent Dorsey <kdorsey@mit.edu>, Angie Kelic <sly@mit.edu>
> Cc: JoAnne Stevenson <jsteven@mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: prereg on student.mit.edu broken
>
> Hello
>
> This problem presents itself when using Mozilla or Netscape on a Linux
> machine.
>
> Please switch to a Solaris workstation and you should have no problem with
> the Pre-Registration application.
>
> We presently do not support Websis on Linux.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions.
>
> Thanks
> Andrea
However, the problem *was* on a Sun workstation running Solaris-Athena.
Netscape worked fine for the user as an alternative, but this seemed
like a bug that you folks would want to know about...
Thanks,
-chris avrich
Athena Consultant
