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Bug #37469 talks.php.net: "Please use a browser that works"
Submitted: 2006-05-17 02:00 UTC Modified: 2006-05-17 23:32 UTC
From: vincent at delau dot nl Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Website problem
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: WinXP Pro / MSIE 7b2
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2006-05-17 02:00 UTC] vincent at delau dot nl 
Description:
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While visiting http://talks.php.net/show/acc_php/24, it told me: "Please use
a browser that works" without any further explaination. I've got two points:

- Why is my browser "not working"?
- Why is there not a complete explaination of the problem and (pointers to) a solution. What is 'a browser that works'?

Reproduce code:
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I'm using IE7 beta 2 for my day to day browsing at the moment. Fortunately, Firefox is also installed for cross-browser checking of websites.

Expected result:
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Normal display of requested page or a helpfull error message explaining why this is happening and how to solve the problem.

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 [2006-05-17 03:59 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
I have neither the time nor the motivation to make this stuff work with IE.  And IE7 specifically has all sorts of nasty memory leaks still.
 [2006-05-17 11:03 UTC] vincent at delau dot nl 
The main line here is, that a more descriptive or helpfull error message might be in place. It should have nothing to do with IE 7 being beta.
PHP doesn't give an error message "Please buy a PHP book" instead of the helpfull, descriptive messages.
 [2006-05-17 12:43 UTC] vincent at delau dot nl 
Maybe this is the problem that needs to be fixed:

Line 17&18 of the outputted HTML:
    document.cookie="dims="+winW+"_"+winH;
    location.reload(false);

These lines could/should be removed. The document.cookie is only set, never retrieved as far as I can tell. It is never used again in the HTML or the JavaScript anyway.
The location.reload() doesn't seem to have a real function either. Maybe it was used to update the cookie? Is there a reference to the cookie in PHP?

Tested in IE7b2, and Firefox 1.5.0.3 from local HTML files.
 [2006-05-17 23:32 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
Of course the server-side PHP uses the cookie.  Or else there would be no point setting it.
 
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