Posting bug

kilika · #1 (**permalink**) July 18th, 2003, 01:07 PM

When I post a reply, it takes me to a page that said it was successful. In the upper left it has a folder tree of where I am at on the site. If I click the lowest level to take me to the topic again so I can see all the posts to it, it takes me back to the main menu of the forums. It does not do it to me all the time, but most of the time I have this problem.

Chris

bluckcuck · #2 (**permalink**) July 18th, 2003, 01:35 PM

I can't seem to replicate this problem.

Maybe some details will help:

What kind of reply are you doing? Reply to topic, Reply Quote, Topic Quote, or Quick Reply.

Does it only happen if you have the checkbox set to spell check and then go back and edit your post?

Any other details about how/when it happens would be appreciated.

Bruce Luckcuck
Director, Applications & Support Services
Wiley Publishing, Inc.

kilika · #3 (**permalink**) July 18th, 2003, 03:16 PM

I just click the link at the bottom of the page that says somehting like:

Code:

You can reply to this posting at: http://p2p.wrox.com/post.asp?method=...60&FORUM_ID=49

I do not have the spell check box checked. My signature is checked. I will send this and see if it does it again.

Chris

kilika · #4 (**permalink**) July 18th, 2003, 03:17 PM

It indeed happened again when I sent that last message

Chris

kilika · #5 (**permalink**) July 18th, 2003, 03:18 PM

however it did not do it on that last one where I did a quick reply.

Chris

joefawcett · #6 (**permalink**) July 23rd, 2003, 04:57 AM

Same problem here. It may be that the automatic redirect takes over before the manual one has a chance.

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Joe

Imar · #7 (**permalink**) July 25th, 2003, 11:04 AM

Are any of you guys running programs like Norton Internet Security? The Privacy Control feature of this program blocks the referrer in a browser. Therefore, the server doesn't know what page the original request came from. The ASP code then, apparently, uses /default.asp as the page to redirect to.

As soon as I turned off Privacy Control, redirecting worked again.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

bluckcuck · #8 (**permalink**) July 25th, 2003, 02:01 PM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by Imar
Are any of you guys running programs like Norton Internet Security? The Privacy Control feature of this program blocks the referrer in a browser. Therefore, the server doesn't know what page the original request came from. The ASP code then, apparently, uses /default.asp as the page to redirect to.

As soon as I turned off Privacy Control, redirecting worked again.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

Good call! This is probably what's happening.

It is true that the forums will default to default.asp if the referrer is not found. In addition to firewall/privacy programs, some proxy servers don't pass referrer information correctly, consistently, or at all.

As a work around, I made some changes to the the referrer logic to allow the forums to "deduce" where you were coming from based on what you're trying to do. It's not going to be perfect, but it's better than going to default.asp every time.

Obviously the best solution is to make sure your browser/computer is configured to allow the HTTP_REFERRER header to pass through to the forums.

Bruce Luckcuck
Director, Applications & Support Services
Wiley Publishing, Inc.

kilika · #9 (**permalink**) July 28th, 2003, 09:19 AM

I do not have that Norton program. We do have a firewall, but I do not think this is thee problem cause it does work every once in a while and It seems to know where I am coming from when entering in replies other ways.

Chris