Bug 9970 - air-scotland, redirects to self on all Mac browsers
Summary: air-scotland, redirects to self on all Mac browsers
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Evangelism (show other bugs)
Version: 420+
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P4 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://www.air-scotland.com/
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Reported: 2006-07-17 07:47 PDT by David Storey
Modified: 2007-12-27 00:06 PST (History)
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Description David Storey 2006-07-17 07:47:03 PDT 
default.asp?mac=true appended to url on all mac browsers tested, making it redirect to itself.
Comment 1 Alexey Proskuryakov 2006-07-17 08:21:06 PDT 
Opens fine in MacIE. Maybe MacIE ignores redirecting to self?
Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-12-25 02:45:18 PST 
According to Wikipedia, "Air Scotland is no longer operating, as the Greek Civil Aviation Authority suspended their Operating Licence and AOC in December 2006."

The site is no longer accessible.
Comment 3 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2007-12-26 20:36:34 PST 
There may be enough saved on the Internet Archive to research this issue (loading the June 21, 2006 still redirects to the original web site):

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.air-scotland.com/

Viewing the source, it looks like this JavaScript is probably the cause of the issue:

version = navigator.appVersion;
if (version.toLowerCase().indexOf("mac")!=-1) 
        location.href = 'default.asp?mac=true';
//else if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape')    
//      location.href = 'main_basic.asp';

This seems like suspect JavaScript code, so there's no point in investigating the issue (especially if it affects multiple Mac browsers).
Comment 4 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-12-27 00:06:11 PST 
Exactly - this bug has been in Evangelism component, for this very reason.