[lug] IE java script idiocracies

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:53:03AM -0600, Samartha Deva wrote:
> Symptom:
> 
> java script function body disappears on W2000 Netscape and IE.
> It is there when loading the file in the browser but fails if
> the page is served through apache under Linux.
> 
> The whole body stripped!
> 
> Just the
> function big_window ( )
> {}
> 
> normally, between the {}'s, there are a couple of function
> statements writing.
> 
> It looks as if the java engine on W2000 does this.

Why would the Java runtime  (or what do you mean by engine)
even touch this? AFAIK JavaScript is't interpreted by a the
Java runtime.

Did you try the Linux version from the same Network, with the same
proxy/gateway setup? This sti^h^h smells like a firewall/proxy
that removes JavaScript from HTML (not a bad idea given the history
of security wholes  in JavaScript implementations ...).

What do you see if you access the page with telnet?

 Ralf

> I had similar stuff earlier, when it could not handle a simple
> expression and I had to split it up:
> 
>      //  IE can't handle this code:
>      // var p = "resizable, width="+(wP+20)+", height="+(hP+50);
>      // var wvar=window.open("",pic_name,p);
>      wP += 23;
>      hP += 60;
> This was the same for Netscape and IE under W2000 and W98.
> 
> Is this perhaps a version issue?
> 
> Linux Netscape, Mozilla, Konqeror does it fine.
> 
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