[Savannah-hackers] Re: Broken link

[Mathieu Roy]

marc0 <address@hidden> said:

> Mathieu Roy on 21 Jul 2003 20:11:12 +0200 writes:
> 
> > Marco Parrone <address@hidden> said:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> while _not_ logged in, going to a "Developer/Consultant Profile",
> >> 
> >> (for example https://savannah.nongnu.org/users/marco_p/)
> >> 
> >> where the email address was not hided, 
> >
> > Should it be?
> > I see marc0 AT autistici DOT org which is the normal behaviour.
> 
> That's ok, the problem is in the underling link.
> 
> >>in the "Email Address" field
> >
> >
> >> > there is a link, if you follow the link:
> >> 
> >>   - with w3m, you get "Unknown URI: http://account/...";
> >>     then "Can't load /sendmessage.php?touser=..."
> >> 
> >>   - with lynx: "Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host."
> >> 
> >>   - with Mozilla Firebird 0.6 even worser: you go to a trap of the
> >>     devil: http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2
> >
> > I do not know how works your software but I do not get how you can be
> > redirected to this address. I suspect this is related to the softwares
> > you use, not Savannah.
> 
> In part, yes.
> 
> If I put the URL "account" and hit ENTER in Firebird, it tries to find
> the host "account" (appending a TLD, or making a search) and goes to
> that address.
> 
> > I must admit that I failed to get it working with both lynk and links
> > (shipped by debian - not a decent links version but an old elinks
> > version).
> >
> > If you can provide a fix, we would be thankful. If not, please fill a
> > bug report and we'll see what we can do.
> 
> I think the problem is in 
> 
>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/sendmessage.php
> 
> if you are not logged in it redirects you to
> 
>   https://account/login.php
> 
> instead it might redirect you to
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/account/login.php
> 
> I think the problem is that it redirects using
> 
>   "account/login.php"
> 
> but it should be fixed using 
> 
>   "/account/login.php".
> 
> I think the problem is in
> 
>   sendmessage.php
> 
> in the function call
> 
>   // Not logged-in, no mail to be sent.
>   exit_not_logged_in();
> 
> so in the function
> 
>   function exit_not_logged_in() {
>       global $REQUEST_URI;
>       //instead of a simple error page, now take them to the login page
>       header ("Location: 
> ".$GLOBALS['sys_https_host']."/account/login.php?return_to=".urlencode($REQUEST_URI));
>   }
> 
> in the file include/exit.php
> 
> but in the CVS of the Savannah Project at Savannah the function seems
> fixed, is Savvannah running that version?

Almost.
It will be updated soon.

Regards, thanks for your report,


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