Forum OpenACS Q&A: Press module working?

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1: Press module working?
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/29/00 03:32 AM
Is the press module working?

Whenever I try to add an item, i get to the preview page, hit confirm, and it goes to add-2.tcl which says:

Redirection
Page has moved here.

which points right back to add-2.tcl

I examined add-2.tcl and didn't see anything that would cause this.

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2: Response to Press module working? (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/29/00 03:41 AM
OK so I went back and actually looked at the tcl files. Here is what I found.

in add-2.tcl and edit-2.tcl the last line is:

ns_returnredirect "" which is suppoed to cause the /press/admin/index.tcl to load. I modified both files to read

ns_returnredirect "/press/admin/index.tcl" and it still cam up the same. It looks like its not taking the URL from the parameter for that procedure.

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3: Response to Press module working? (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/29/00 04:16 PM
If anyone read this, I figured out that this is a bug in Opera for Windows 4.01 that seems to be causing this. Netsacpe 4.08 works fine.

I don't have IE to test from this computer, but I suspect it works. I guess this is the price of using an alternative browser.

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4: Response to Press module working? (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 08/29/00 11:53 PM
An interesting bug. Can you test redirect more thoroughly with Opera to find out what the problem might be?
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5: Response to Press module working? (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/30/00 02:56 AM
I just got Opera 4.02 and the problem is a little better. With version 4.01 it would not redirect at all. No matter what was specified as the argument to ns_redirectreturn.

Now it works if you specify a URL. I tried an absolute URL:

ns_returnredirect "http://www.thedesignexperience.org/press/admin/"

I also tried

ns_returnredirect "." and that brings me to the index page in the current directory

and

ns_returnredirect "/" which brings me to the home page.

I am not sure why Opera does not interpolate the directory name from the current page.

I created redirect.tcl which contains this:

ns_returnredirect ""

Here is what AOLserver sends to Opera when I use "" for the redirect:

Page has moved <#a href=''>here<#/a>

I tested using LYNX and I got this message:

Alert!: Got redirection with no location header.