Re: [amsat-bb] bugs bugs everywhere bugs

[Emily Clarke <w0eec@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are no browser related bugs for any of the supported 
browsers.  IE 6.0, 5.5 and 5.0 work perfectly.  Konqueror 3.3 works 
100% as does Safari, which is based on the Konqueror 
codebase.  Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and Netscape 7 and 8 all work 
100%.  Netscape 4.7 works but doesn't render the same as CSS 
compliant browsers.

I recently rolled out a stealth upgrade to all of the satellite 
status pages after previewing them to the board and 
officers.  However I wasn't happy with the way frequencies were being 
displayed in the satellite catalog page, and spent yesterday 
redesigning it.  Some of you may have noticed a temporary reference 
in red that the data was erroneous.  It wasn't so much that it was 
erroneous - just very confusing.

Last night and today were spent re-entering the frequency data from 
scratch as it was apparent after the first attempt to fix it inline 
that it would be faster to enter it from scratch rather than try to 
modify and reformat the existing data. (tnx Bill VE7WFG for 
volunteering to help.)

This was corrected as of 2pm Pacific time today (Monday) and the new 
display routine was rolled out. I'm pleased that it handles 99.9% of 
the permutations of satellite frequencies correctly. (AO-40 being the 
one that comes to mind that could use some special 
processing.)  Obviously there may be some typos since most of the 
data was entered by hand.  If you find any please submit a bug report.

The bug report page is and has been working perfectly since the site 
went live.  However we recently tightened up site security which may 
impact some users.  If you have Norton or some other software based 
internet security software enabled and have not entered AMSAT.ORG as 
a trusted site you may not be allowed to submit a bug report.  This 
is because some internet security software blocks URL Authentication 
information, without which we can't determine that the POST request 
originated at AMSAT.ORG.  This is a security issue to prevent 
spam-bots from trying to use AMSAT.ORG to relay spam.

When this happens you are redirected to a page that displays the 
following error message:

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Unauthorized

         We have detected that you are trying to use the AMSAT 
website in a way it was not designed to support.

         We regret that due to abuses we can no longer honor requests 
from outside the AMSAT domain.  This includes our contact and bug 
forms and other areas where malicious intent may occur. You may also 
see this warning if you are using Anti-Virus, firewall and privacy 
programs such as Norton Internet Security that prevents us from 
determining where the request originated (URL Authentication). If 
this is the case, please refer to your anti-virus or privacy program 
for instructions to allow AMSAT.ORG to detect this information.  This 
may be as simple as adding AMSAT.ORG to your list of trusted sites.

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73,

Emily



At 03:11 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:
>works fine for me, maybe it is fixed  :-)
>
>Will NA2NA
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "wa6fwf@amsat.org" 
><kevinschuchmann@sbcglobal.net>
>To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
>Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:59 PM
>Subject: [amsat-bb] bugs bugs everywhere bugs
>
>
>>Hello All,
>>   To Whom It May concern,
>>   just as a FYI the amsat-na satellite status page is having 
>> problems, i.e. 6.0 shows 6 triangles only, konqueror shows zero, 
>> mozilla looks like it shows them all  but they are boxes.
>>   And if you wondering why I'm posting here and not on the bug 
>> report page is because when I fill out the bug page and hit submit 
>> it says page not found, so the bugs have bugs have bugs...
>>
>>73
>>Kevin WA6FWF
>>Amsat-UK #6505
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