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Re: Problem with Web LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 9 Nov 1998 05:54:13 GMT
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"Barry McFarland" <bmcfarl1@mail.arco.com> writes:
> > > It's not a big problem but with the local newsgroups page the bookmarks
> > > don't work but instead go straight back to the Main News Introduction Page
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> > What bookmarks would those be? Can you describe the problem in more detail?
> >
> > 1. What are some sample URLs exhibiting the problem?
> > 2. What web browser are you using?
> > 3. What OS are you running?
> > 4. Did this just start happening or has this always happened since you
> > started using?
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> I noticed this too.
>
> 1. All of the "hot text" which makes up paragraph 2 of the local newsgroups,
> group page.
> 2. Netscape 4.07
> 3. win '98
> 4. noticed it a couple of days ago, origninaly worked as intended (click on
> country and drop to that section of the page). Now it points back to news
> page.??
Aha! -- I see now. Thanks. OK, whew, I thought this might be a browser bug
with it not handling <BASE HREF=...> correctly. Fortunately, it's my own
boneheaded mistake and therefore easily fixable.
About 5 days ago I realized that the HTML on the /news/groups/loc/ page
could be condensed by using <BASE HREF=...> to eliminiate tons of repeated
stuff in the zillions of URL links there. This was my first wrestling match
with <BASE HREF=...> and my brain was out to lunch when I missed regression-
testing the local-anchor links at the top. I only regression-tested the
group links that made up the majority of the page.
BTW, there's something amiss with <BASE HREF=..."> in Netscape. If I set
<BASE HREF="http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?">
and use <A HREF="lugnet.loc.foo.foo.foo">, that doesn't work. :-(
Intuitively, it ought to, but Netscape messes up the URL. OTOH, maybe it's
not supposed to work that fancily in the first place. Anyway, I had to set
<BASE HREF="http://www.lugnet.com/news/">
and use <A HREF="display.cgi?lugnet.loc.foo.foo.foo">, which really isn't
much better than <A HREF="/news/display.cgi?lugnet.loc.foo.foo.foo">
without the <BASE HREF=...> as it only saves 3600 bytes over the original.
Later, when the display.cgi script is moved down into its own directly (with
transparent forwarding, of course) then setting something like
<BASE HREF="http://www.lugnet.com/news/view/">
will help save 10200 bytes over the original.
Thanks for reporting/clarifying the problem, and I apologize for not
catching it myself before cutting it in...
--Todd
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| (...) I am quite sure it does work. The base URL should be stripped to the last separator ("/"), and the relative URL's in the document should be appended to the stripped version of the base URL. Your example should be processed as <A Href="(URL) (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) don't (...) I noticed this too. 1. All of the "hot text" which makes up paragraph 2 of the local newsgroups, group page. 2. Netscape 4.07 3. win '98 4. noticed it a couple of days ago, origninaly worked as intended (click on country and drop (...) (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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