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  • RangeBob
    GoC Elite
    • Mar 2014
    • 122820

    #1

    Can't get to page

    In any thread, I can always get to the 'next unread post' regardless of what page it's on.

    In most threads, when I click back a page, I end up on the page I requested. (i.e. works fine)

    In Internet Explorer browser with javascript disabled,
    in some threads, when I click back a page, I end up on page 1 rather than the page I wanted to get to. And I can't thereafter get to any other page other than page 1 (e.g. LAST doesn't work either).
    e.g.
    hxxp://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/showthread.php?32578-Calgary-Earls-location-eliminates-tipping-replaces-it-with-16-‘hospitality-charge’/page4

    WORKAROUNDS
    1) If I remove the text after the thread number (32578), so the URL looks like this, I get to the page without problem:
    hxxp://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/showthread.php?32578/page4
    2) a fully enabled Firefox browser
  • Doug_M
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2013
    • 16046

    #2
    Javascript in browsers really isn't much of an attack vector anymore. I'd dump Internet Explorer. IE11 is their first version to be (finally) fully standards compliant, yet it is also the last version of IE to be made. While it is indeed standards compliant it is a slow browser compared to others. Personally I'd choose Firefox over Chrome. Chrome is great but there is that level of distrust of Google. In Firefox you should be able to find a decent add-on that allows you to block Javascript by site so you could essentially leave Javascript off except for a site like GOC.

    As a web developer I wouldn't even consider writing a site that works with Javascript turned off anymore. Javascript, CSS and some server backend are the web. Html is just the two by fours now. Most sites get data from a server as needed when needed (as opposed to strictly when the page is first loaded) and require Javascript for that.

    Sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know RB.
    Our freedoms ARE the greater good.

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    • DanN
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2015
      • 2824

      #3
      Originally posted by Doug_M
      Javascript in browsers really isn't much of an attack vector anymore. I'd dump Internet Explorer. IE11 is their first version to be (finally) fully standards compliant, yet it is also the last version of IE to be made. While it is indeed standards compliant it is a slow browser compared to others. Personally I'd choose Firefox over Chrome. Chrome is great but there is that level of distrust of Google. In Firefox you should be able to find a decent add-on that allows you to block Javascript by site so you could essentially leave Javascript off except for a site like GOC.

      As a web developer I wouldn't even consider writing a site that works with Javascript turned off anymore. Javascript, CSS and some server backend are the web. Html is just the two by fours now. Most sites get data from a server as needed when needed (as opposed to strictly when the page is first loaded) and require Javascript for that.

      Sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know RB.
      I'm with Doug. Firefox and Chrome are far superior. Having done a little web development myself, trying to make a site work with IE is typically a nightmare.
      "I don't have a firearms problem; they all work perfectly well." - Strike that. I do have a problem; the gov't has decided some are too dangerous to own.
      Membership: CCFR, SAFGC
      Gov’t couldn’t make sense if you gave them a recipe.

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      • RangeBob
        GoC Elite
        • Mar 2014
        • 122820

        #4
        Back on topic,
        I think the problem is the single quote in the URL.

        This thread also suffers from the same problem
        hxxp://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/showthread.php?32591-The-Conservative-leadership-race-Your-guide-to-who’s-in-who’s-out-and-who’s-still-on-the-fence

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        • RangeBob
          GoC Elite
          • Mar 2014
          • 122820

          #5
          and Back Off Topic

          In 2000, IE had 90% of the browser market. That's changed.
          W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

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          • Doug_M
            Senior Member
            • Feb 2013
            • 16046

            #6
            Originally posted by RangeBob
            Back on topic,
            I think the problem is the single quote in the URL.

            This thread also suffers from the same problem
            hxxp://www.gunownersofcanada.ca/showthread.php?32591-The-Conservative-leadership-race-Your-guide-to-who’s-in-who’s-out-and-who’s-still-on-the-fence
            I tried to replicate your problem yesterday but had no luck. But that just means I got "something" wrong in trying to duplicate your setup. Have you tried the above URL with the ’ escaped as %2C to confirm?
            Our freedoms ARE the greater good.

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