UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Bug Reports Fixed Bugs [FIXED in RC1] Lingering IE 6.0 issues

After making a PM it seems to miss the redirect back to your PM's and shows nothing.

Also after replying to a post using quick reply box if you hit the index link at the bottom of the page after it returns the post you just made, it doesn't return the forum index and comes back blank. This seems to be the case after any reply.

Can you post what you see in your address bar on the occassions you are getting a blank page?

This is what I get when I reply to a post with IE 6 and then click index

http://www.validusguild.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=17&page=025570

Sending a private message and it comes back with this url.

http://www.validusguild.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=viewmessage&message=1844#post2021

message: We could not find that private message

If I hit reload on the browser after getting the error message it finds the private message I sent and displays it properly

If I hit reload on the browser after clicking index it still doesn't find the forum index. I always need to use the breadcrumb.

It seems to be consistent every time.

The index one is a bit odd as it's trying to redirect to page 025570. That's odd for a couple reasons. One, that's an awful lot of pages, so it's doubtful that page # exists, and two, the page number should never start with a zero, unless it is zero. That 25570 is being appended for some reason and I'm not exactly sure why. I'm using IE6 right now and can't duplicate this one.

The second issue, with the private message. Since a refresh will display it, that almost sounds like it's getting redirected before MySQL has finished updating. Don't really want to put the delay back in there so will probably change it to if it can't find the message it will just redirect you back to your pt list.

you have my Mors account info go post something anywhere and do exactly what I am saying.. you can see it. Feel free Rick. If you need the info again let me know. My environment is Windows 2003, php5.14 mysql5 running under IIS 6.0

Ok, I made a couple quick changes on your site. Seems to have fixed it, but let me know if you see any issues.

ahh ok .. is this something I am going to have to support or are you adding this to the code ?

I'm adding it to the base code to do some testing. I'll need you to make sure everything redirects ok on your site, even those that were working ok before just to make sure the changes don't cause any issues.

If everything works ok, then it will be in the base code. Basically in older versions of PHP, you had to pass the session id in the URL when doing a meta refresh or you'd lose the session id. This is causing a problem on your server. Since we're requiring php 4.3 now, I don't think we need to actually do this anymore, so I commented that bit out for testing.

right now it is acting the same. I restarted the website and cleared the cache on both the site and the browser.

I noticed something. I made a new post. The systems labeled it post=26073 in the url line. It says page=0#post26073. When I click index after making the post at the bottom of the page the url line says page=026073 like it smashed those 2 items together. If I go back into the bad url and manually take out the 0 to make it page=26073 or take out the 26073 and make it page=0 it redirects properly to the forum list without issue. Is there a size limit for this variable? What is the format of the Index URL ?

it seems some method or variable/parsing is being missed?

More info:

IE7.0 here is the index url after posting:

http://www.validusguild.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=6&page=0

IE6.0 here is the url after posting:

http://www.validusguild.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=6&page=026076

Hmm, that's odd. I wonder if I put the old file back somehow. I was able to duplicate the problem in IE6 on your server, made the changes and then could no longer duplicate it. Let me double check.

Hmm, guess that didn't fix it. Musta been a fluke. Ok, back to investigating.

Odd, interesting little bug with IE6 on your server. It appears that when you do a Location: style redirect and it has an anchor tag, the anchor tag isn't treated as an actual anchor tag. Rather, it becomes part of the variable it follows. I've added a bit of code to manually strip out the anchor tags from variables on a redirct and it seems to have fixed this.

yes it fixed both issues.. the PM not redirecting and the index url problem.

There are some physical changes to the site. One Shout Box isn't working. Two the font size changed for forum lists..

Was this a direct result of the changes ?

this holds true for both IE7 and IE6

Woops, left some debug code on your site. Should be all working now.

Woot nice fix Rick.. Seems to be working as designed

Everyone feel free to create an account and test different browsers against the new fixes for IE6.0 Use Firefox etc.. Browsers I don't have or use. I will clean up after you guys don't worry. I want to see an excellent product here.