[ic] Netscape drops cart and YES I've checked the FAQ

[Ed LaFrance]

At 12:21 PM 3/15/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Perl 5.6.1, Apache 1.3.23, Debian woody, Mysql 3.23.47, IC 4.8.3
>Here is the setup in interchange.cfg
>Catalog deansbeans.com /www/deansbeans.com/ic www.deansbeans.com/ic
>deansbeans.com/ic
>
>Using Netscape 4.73 on Windows 2000:
>Cart drops going to https server if I start with URL
>http://deansbeans.com/ic. If I use http://www.deansbeans.com/ic, I have
>no problems. My guess is that NS is ignoring the cookie set because the
>URL does not have two dots. I emphasize guess. I have not looked into
>this.
>
>I thouhgt that if a visitor came to the site using
>http://deansbeans.com/ic they would click on a link or submit a form and
>they would end up with something like
>http://www.deansbeans.com/ic/<somepage>?id=blah,blah,blah. Then the URL
>would have two dots and NS would be happy.
>
>This story is getting too long. Let me wrap up.
>
>In bin/interchange line 1809 there is this:
>$Vend::Cfg->{VendURL}   =~ s!$real!$CGI::script_name!;
>$Vend::Cfg->{SecureURL} =~ s!$real!$CGI::script_name!;
>
>I think this why my [area] tags are not putting out my VendURL.
>
>What are those lines for? Am I anywhere close to understanding what is
>going on? Has anyone else seen Netscape drop the cart with a URL that
>only has one dot?
>
>BTW, I realize that I could do some sort of bounce (on the IC page) or
>rewrite with my browser.
>
>--
>Bill Carr

Bill - to confuse matters for you even further, I tried your tests with 
Netscape 4.76 on WinXP and the basket did not drop.

- Ed L.


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