Re: On line passport application
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:32:14PM +, Tim Hill wrote: In article 56966.82.153.33.53.1358117198.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk, Gerald Dodson gerald.dod...@argonet.co.uk wrote: In message 55612.82.153.33.53.1358077313.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co .uk Gerald Dodson gerald.dod...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Trouble with this on the UK gov site: goes to an error 404 screen. Has anyone had success with this? Hi Gerald Can you give the URL? I'll have a go. Chris. It is: https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/ctl04 On Suirrel it does not show distinction between lower case 'l' and number 1. The string epa is followed by number 1r1: the 'ct' by lower case 'l'. Perhaps you should use a better font. (What's Suirrel?) As usual, this seems to be a NetSurf+Javascript issue. On 'another platform' with a modern browser, the page linked to from passports.ips.gov.uk is https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/Rich/Formpage.aspx and not what Netsurf comes up with that you quote; it uses a javascript link. Even NetSurf's partial javascript is obviously not catered for. Actually the *correct* analysis is: https://passports.ips.gov.uk/ -302 redirect - https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/index.html All the links use old style javascript: URI scheme links (instead on onclick) calling __doPostBack(); unfortunately because out User-Agent reply is truthful and not a pack of lies. The site is not serving any of the javascript code to provide the actual implementation for __doPostBack which, unsurprisingly, results in bad page navigation. I will open the discussion with the other developers on our UA string again...trouble is I agree with the principle of not lieing so this is a difficult issue to think about. Whether you can get any further with NetSurf is not something I would bother to try. I long ago gave up using RISC OS for 'serious' surfing. Even a £28 Android tablet is more capable, unfortunately. This is not a helpful statement, especialy not on the NetSurf users mailing list, you are of course entitled to express your opinion...elsewhere. -- Tim Hill .. -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
Re: On line passport application
In article 20130114133944.gv15...@kyllikki.org, Vincent Sanders vi...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: I will open the discussion with the other developers on our UA string again...trouble is I agree with the principle of not lieing so this is a difficult issue to think about. If it helps, anyone using Android browsers may get used to the idea of browsers' User Agent string lying in order for the page you want (i.e. not the mobile one) to be served. Some (e.g Dolphin) even have quite a few choices. [Snip] -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
Re: On line passport application
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:32:14 + (GMT), Tim Hill wrote: As usual, this seems to be a NetSurf+Javascript issue. On 'another platform' with a modern browser, the page linked to from passports.ips.gov.uk is https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/Rich/Formpage.aspx and not what Netsurf comes up with that you quote; it uses a javascript link. Even NetSurf's partial javascript is obviously not catered for. The solution is actually to DISABLE JavaScript for it to work. When enabled it tries to go to javascript:__doPostBack(\'ctl04\',\'\'), whatever that is supposed to do is clearly not supported/working in NetSurf currently. With JS disabled, NetSurf goes to the following page: https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/NoScriptRich/Formpage.aspx Which should work perfectly, being a non-JS version of the site. Chris Thanks for that. I must remember to try JS off in future. The Squirrel queried by Tim Hill is what you get with Orpheus. I have just been too lazy to set my Iyo up with Pluto yet. As far as I know there are no options for fonts with Squirrel- certainly no options in its choices. Gerald
Re: On line passport application
In message 55612.82.153.33.53.1358077313.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co .uk Gerald Dodson gerald.dod...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Trouble with this on the UK gov site: goes to an error 404 screen. Has anyone had success with this? Hi Gerald Can you give the URL? I'll have a go. Chris. Gerald -- --
Re: On line passport application
In message 55612.82.153.33.53.1358077313.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co .uk Gerald Dodson gerald.dod...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Trouble with this on the UK gov site: goes to an error 404 screen. Has anyone had success with this? Hi Gerald Can you give the URL? I'll have a go. Chris. It is: https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/ctl04 On Suirrel it does not show distinction between lower case 'l' and number 1. The string epa is followed by number 1r1: the 'ct' by lower case 'l'. Gerald
Re: On line passport application
In article 56966.82.153.33.53.1358117198.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co.uk, Gerald Dodson gerald.dod...@argonet.co.uk wrote: In message 55612.82.153.33.53.1358077313.squir...@email.orpheusnet.co .uk Gerald Dodson gerald.dod...@argonet.co.uk wrote: Trouble with this on the UK gov site: goes to an error 404 screen. Has anyone had success with this? Hi Gerald Can you give the URL? I'll have a go. Chris. It is: https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/ctl04 On Suirrel it does not show distinction between lower case 'l' and number 1. The string epa is followed by number 1r1: the 'ct' by lower case 'l'. Perhaps you should use a better font. (What's Suirrel?) As usual, this seems to be a NetSurf+Javascript issue. On 'another platform' with a modern browser, the page linked to from passports.ips.gov.uk is https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/Rich/Formpage.aspx and not what Netsurf comes up with that you quote; it uses a javascript link. Even NetSurf's partial javascript is obviously not catered for. Whether you can get any further with NetSurf is not something I would bother to try. I long ago gave up using RISC OS for 'serious' surfing. Even a £28 Android tablet is more capable, unfortunately. -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
Re: On line passport application
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:32:14 + (GMT), Tim Hill wrote: As usual, this seems to be a NetSurf+Javascript issue. On 'another platform' with a modern browser, the page linked to from passports.ips.gov.uk is https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/Rich/Formpage.aspx and not what Netsurf comes up with that you quote; it uses a javascript link. Even NetSurf's partial javascript is obviously not catered for. The solution is actually to DISABLE JavaScript for it to work. When enabled it tries to go to javascript:__doPostBack(\'ctl04\',\'\'), whatever that is supposed to do is clearly not supported/working in NetSurf currently. With JS disabled, NetSurf goes to the following page: https://passports.ips.gov.uk/epa1r1a/NoScriptRich/Formpage.aspx Which should work perfectly, being a non-JS version of the site. Chris
