Adobe Search Site and OmniWeb

Albert A. Jagnow jagnow at lcua154.foundation.uiowa.edu
Tue Oct 19 14:30:31 PDT 1999


I ran into some strange behavior in trying to search on the Adobe  
website with OmniWeb 3.0.2. http://search.adobe.com If I have  
Javascript on and try to do a search I get the search results page  
which is immediately refreshed by  
http://www.adobe.com/error/viewing.html.  I thought this to be a  
javascript bug so I turned off javascript and tried to search again,  
only to get the standard 404 Not Found.

It looks like they intended to set up their webpage so if you don't  
have javascript you should get the  
http://www.adobe.com/error/viewing.html page, but you get 404 Not  
Found.  For some reason if JavaScript is on OmniWeb seems to read   
the Javascript as well as
<NOSCRIPT><META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"  
CONTENT="0;URL=/error/viewing.html"></NOSCRIPT>.

I am not sure I totally understand what is going on. If this is a  
bug in OmniWeb, Adobe's Page or both.  Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Albert   



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