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Re:The Reason why

Posted by: nikolic on July 11, 2004 08:32 AM
No, although there were some hiccups in the writing process.

I wish I could remember more fully to describe the situatin more closely, however I received an error

I believe that the error suggested a relationship to the use of the back button, newsforge embedded within a frame, or viewing through a proxy --- something that is unavoidable when pressing a link from hotmail unless a site forces otherwise. For instance, I am currently viewing the URL

http://64.4.43.250/cgi-bin/linkrd
?_lang=EN&lah=b60f571e41314d5a04132dbddbd2940<nobr>e<wbr></nobr>
&lat=1089503780&hm
___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2enewsforge%2ecom%2
fcomments%2epl%3fsid%3d39129%26cid%3d94772

rather then the page link in the email directly. This is actually troublesome as the proxy isnt using SSL, and so I have to remember to get out of hotmail before offering up any potentionally dangerous info to a site (credit cards, ss#, etc.)

Although the proxy is happy enough with connecting with a secure page, I am sent an insecure one.

Who knows, maybe there is something to do with having my session expire from hotmail's side.

I remember then --- rather than through hotmail --- navigating directly to the original discussion, logging in, and then pressing reply to the same post that I had intended. I can't remember if I rewrote the post or held it in notepad to paste it. I do this often enough for long posts; I may have in this case, honestly.

This second time there were no errors attempting to submit, but the carriage returns were removed after I had posted regardless of their presence in the preview.

I hope that it helps. I would more often submit a bug report, but I am never sure if it is actually me that is doing something wrong or if I have the correct vocabulary to describe what was happening.

If this works, I will resubmit the original post with carriage returns. Thanks for prompting me to send it in.

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