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Bug 255738 - Wrong link in the options
Summary: Wrong link in the options
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: www
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Content (show other bugs)
Version: 8.2
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P2 normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Jan Pirek
URL:
Keywords:
: 255739 258653 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-10-06 14:44 UTC by legitalk
Modified: 2017-04-18 11:28 UTC (History)
0 users

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Exception Reporter:


Attachments
Screenshot (SK), when trying to load www.netbeans.org from NetBeans menu - Help - About (39.35 KB, image/jpeg)
2015-10-12 09:33 UTC, legitalk
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Menu Help - About - link www.netbeans.org (170.42 KB, image/png)
2017-04-18 11:27 UTC, legitalk
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URL www.netbeans.org cant be loaded (555.63 KB, image/png)
2017-04-18 11:27 UTC, legitalk
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Manually changed URL to netbeans.org, it will forward to https://netbeans.org (953.75 KB, image/png)
2017-04-18 11:28 UTC, legitalk
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Description legitalk 2015-10-06 14:44:16 UTC
In the Options of NetBeans, tab General, there is down Usage Statistics. And there is blue link to the website - Learn more. It has wrong url - http://www.netbeans.org/about/usage-tracking.html, which should redirect to http://netbeans.org/about/usage-tracking.html, but it wont.

PS: This is occuring only if you are not logged it in the website bugzilla. I tried all known browsers, deleted cookies (to not be logged in) and then after clicking on Learn more it open browser and failed to load http://www.netbeans.org/about/usage-tracking.html with error: site is not accessible.

Also the same issue is on the website www.netbeans.org, when I click on Home.
Comment 1 Jiri Kovalsky 2015-10-06 15:17:33 UTC
Reassigning for further evaluation.
Comment 2 Jiri Kovalsky 2015-10-06 15:19:40 UTC
*** Bug 255739 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Jan Pirek 2015-10-12 09:19:43 UTC
Hello,
I have just tried to reproduce, but it really works for me. Tested in FF, Chrome after clearing cookies, cache etc...

Jirko, it would help if we could review all netbeans.org links in the IDE and remove 'www.' from there. This subdomain is not there any more and there is redirection there set up to root domain netbeans.org instead. But obviously this is not working properly in all the cases.

honza
Comment 4 legitalk 2015-10-12 09:32:47 UTC
Hello, I restarted my PC, launched NetBeans, go to Help - About. There is link www.netbeans.org, click on it.

Then it openned my default browser (FF), and it did the same, as I was reporting.
Comment 5 legitalk 2015-10-12 09:33:35 UTC
Created attachment 156666 [details]
Screenshot (SK), when trying to load www.netbeans.org from NetBeans menu - Help - About
Comment 6 legitalk 2015-10-12 09:35:01 UTC
PS: I tried it also in my office, and also on my home PC and laptop. Everywhere the same issue.
Comment 7 legitalk 2016-04-27 08:32:28 UTC
This problem is still reproducible. Maybe as Honza said, it would help if we could review all netbeans.org links in the IDE and remove 'www.' from there. This subdomain is not there any more and there is redirection there set up to root domain netbeans.org instead. But obviously this is not working properly in all the cases.
Comment 8 legitalk 2016-04-27 08:37:51 UTC
*** Bug 258653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 legitalk 2016-04-27 08:38:18 UTC
Its not a problem with web pages, its problem with the link in NB. The link is invalid - http://www.netbeans.org/about/usage-tracking.html

Try it in a browser.
Comment 10 legitalk 2016-04-27 08:38:40 UTC
So I tried other links in NB, also in the About - link to main page.

It looks like all links are like "http://www.netbeans.org/__________"

But none of them are working. Also in the browser, when entered manually, its not working.

The truth is, "www" shouldnt be there. But the second, and more important think is, then there should be https, not http.

So all links should be like "https://netbeans.org/__________", and this is working well.
Comment 11 legitalk 2017-04-18 11:27:12 UTC
Created attachment 164133 [details]
Menu Help - About - link www.netbeans.org
Comment 12 legitalk 2017-04-18 11:27:52 UTC
Created attachment 164134 [details]
URL www.netbeans.org cant be loaded
Comment 13 legitalk 2017-04-18 11:28:36 UTC
Created attachment 164135 [details]
Manually changed URL to netbeans.org, it will forward to https://netbeans.org