Workaround for Firefox on Windows in newsRiver.root

In the last round of testing of newsRiver.root, we got to the bottom of the problem that people were having using the aggregator in Firefox on Windows -- apparently their DDE interface will, under some circumstances, drop the last character in the URL.

The workaround I implemented is that when a page is not found, the website's "objectNotFoundHandler" tries to redirect to a page whose name is the same as the URL with an added character at the end.

It's the workaround that won't break when the bug is fixed.

How to update

To get the update, you have to update both newsRiver.root and opml.root.

1. Choose Get Latest Code from the NewsRiver sub-menu of the Tools menu and...

2. Choose Update opml.root from the File menu.

After the update, newsRiver.root will be at version 0.22.

Feedback request

If you were having the problem, please post a comment whether or not this workaround fixed it. Thanks!

# Posted by Dave Winer on 1/7/06; 10:28:44 PM - --