Jed wrote:
> Has anyone downloaded the Mozilla 0.7 browser release
> (www.mozilla.org)? I downloaded the windows and linux versions
> although I haven't used the Linux version yet, my windows version
> crashing on the delphi jedi website (www.delphi-jedi.org). [So
> this makes it sort of on topic :-)] I would like to know if it
> also crashes on that site for you as well... If you haven't
> looked at the Mozilla browser it is an open source version
> of Netscape (developed by a lot of Netscape developers). More
> detail available from the website. Definately worth a look
Believe it or not, it's a little bit on-topic (or, at least, I thikn I know
the reason for the misbehaviour you saw <g>).
I don't use Mozilla but it must share a fair bit with the NS 6 release
version code, because the latter introduced a darned-awful "feature"
which translates simple things like colons on the URL into their
MIME equivalents (%3C or something similar; stopped using it so
can't recall precisely). That doesn't affect most site automation
schemas, but the particular WebHub configuration used at the Jedi
site gets bitten by it.
The specific config on that site needs to be altered, or a newer
WebHub (as-yet unreleased, AFAIK) build which copes with the
oddly expanded URLs must be employed. I doubt the ugly URLs
NS/Mozilla now make will be reverted in a future release. I don't
know of other sites/automation approaches affected by the change,
but I'll bet some will be, so both users and site owners will be
gnashing a bit over this wrinkle.
cheers,
peter
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