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What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

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#204995 — What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Date	2019-02-05 01:20 +0100
Subject	What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xnWCZ-84F-1@gated-at.bofh.it>

The address wasn’t understood

Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the 
following protocols (javascript) isn’t associated with any program or is 
not allowed in this context.

    You might need to install other software to open this address.

I am on the states unclaimed property site, entering a name. clicking on 
the Search button gets the above quoted response.

Thanks everybody.  

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#205003 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 11:10 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xo5PY-5zE-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#204995

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On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:19:26PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> The address wasn’t understood
> 
> Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the 
> following protocols (javascript) isn’t associated with any program or is 
> not allowed in this context.
> 
>     You might need to install other software to open this address.

Too little info to know really say something, but it seems that the
web"masters" mis-typed some javascript: "URL" somewhere.

If you want anyone to help you debug it, you'd have to disclose the
page's URL.

Cheers
-- tomás

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#205004

From	deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>
Date	2019-02-05 12:00 +0100
Message-ID	<xo6Cm-5RH-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205003

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> Too little info to know really say something, but it seems that the
> web"masters" mis-typed some javascript: "URL" somewhere.
> 
> If you want anyone to help you debug it, you'd have to disclose the
> page's URL.

I was thinking he has disabled javascript in the browser or something
similar.

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#205006 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 13:30 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xo81r-6QW-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205004

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 11:55:32AM +0100, deloptes wrote:
> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > Too little info to know really say something, but it seems that the
> > web"masters" mis-typed some javascript: "URL" somewhere.
> > 
> > If you want anyone to help you debug it, you'd have to disclose the
> > page's URL.
> 
> I was thinking he has disabled javascript in the browser or something
> similar.

This sounds compelling, but... I'm here the one always disabling
Javascript by default and I haven't seen this strange message.
Ever. So... hmmm.

OTOH Web browsers are known to be non-deterministic, so there you
go ;-)

Cheers
-- t

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#205009

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Date	2019-02-05 14:10 +0100
Message-ID	<xo8E9-7ja-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205004

On Tuesday 05 February 2019 05:55:32 deloptes wrote:

> tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Too little info to know really say something, but it seems that the
> > web"masters" mis-typed some javascript: "URL" somewhere.
> >
> > If you want anyone to help you debug it, you'd have to disclose the
> > page's URL.
>
> I was thinking he has disabled javascript in the browser or something
> similar.
I checked the about:config, no java related stuff is disabled.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#205010 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com>
Date	2019-02-05 14:20 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xo8NQ-7mG-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205009

Le 05/02/2019 à 14:00, Gene Heskett a écrit :

> I checked the about:config, no java related stuff is disabled.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Hello Gene,

- Java and Javascript are different things
- If you have installed a Firefox extension like Noscript, it partially
or totally disables scripts for certain languages, including Javascript
- Have you installed Firefox from Mozilla or from the Wheezy repos?
Firefox from Wheezy must be pretty old...

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#205013

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Date	2019-02-05 14:50 +0100
Message-ID	<xo9gS-7wO-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205010

On Tuesday 05 February 2019 08:13:00 didier gaumet wrote:

> Le 05/02/2019 à 14:00, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > I checked the about:config, no java related stuff is disabled.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Hello Gene,
>
> - Java and Javascript are different things

I was using javascript as the keyword, and noscript is not installed.

> - If you have installed a Firefox extension like Noscript, it
> partially or totally disables scripts for certain languages, including
> Javascript - Have you installed Firefox from Mozilla or from the
> Wheezy repos? Firefox from Wheezy must be pretty old...

Wheezy repos. And it is old. Too many missing depends for a later 
version. I reinstalled a lot of stuff including the browsers, might be a 
little better this morning, the news videos aren't stalling as badly.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#205016 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 15:00 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xo9qx-7Ai-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205013

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 08:39:52AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2019 08:13:00 didier gaumet wrote:
[...]

> > - Java and Javascript are different things
> 
> I was using javascript as the keyword, and noscript is not installed.

That's what happens when mails cross in-flight ;-D

Cheers
-- t

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#205015 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 15:00 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xo9qx-7Ai-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205009

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 08:00:40AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2019 05:55:32 deloptes wrote:
> 
> > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > Too little info to know really say something, but it seems that the
> > > web"masters" mis-typed some javascript: "URL" somewhere.

[...]

> I checked the about:config, no java related stuff is disabled.

As didier said, it's "javascript", not "java". A confusion which
is understandable in view of the similar names -- the similarity
is a marketing stunt by Netscape mid-90s for which we're still
paying through the nose :-(

By the way, you won't see anything javascript in your about:config,
you'll have to go to about:preferences and suffer a lecture by
your browser that you -- horrors! -- might be about breaking
something or that your cat might enter some Schrödinger state or
what not. Courtesy of the ever more rampant  infantilization of
browser user interfaces (or of software user interfaces in general).

The Wikipedia page on Javascript is recommended reading.

Cheers
-- t

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#205008

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Date	2019-02-05 14:00 +0100
Message-ID	<xo8ut-70H-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205003

On Tuesday 05 February 2019 04:59:58 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:19:26PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > The address wasn’t understood
> >
> > Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the
> > following protocols (javascript) isn’t associated with any program
> > or is not allowed in this context.
> >
> >     You might need to install other software to open this address.
>
> Too little info to know really say something, but it seems that the
> web"masters" mis-typed some javascript: "URL" somewhere.
>
> If you want anyone to help you debug it, you'd have to disclose the
> page's URL.
>
http://www.wvsto.com/Unclaimed-Property/Search-Claim

In the fwiw category, midori worked, but thats about all it could do, 
very crashy on most sites.

> Cheers
> -- tomás


Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#205014 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 14:50 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xo9gR-7wO-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

[...]

> http://www.wvsto.com/Unclaimed-Property/Search-Claim

It doesn't even connect for me. I lean even more strongly
towards incompetent web "programmers". Sigh.

Cheers
-- t

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#205018

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Date	2019-02-05 15:40 +0100
Message-ID	<xoa3f-838-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205014

On Tuesday 05 February 2019 08:42:01 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > http://www.wvsto.com/Unclaimed-Property/Search-Claim
>
> It doesn't even connect for me. I lean even more strongly
> towards incompetent web "programmers". Sigh.
>
> Cheers
> -- t
You're trying to access it from a .de domain? Probably blocked, although 
I was alerted by a NY resident who wasn't blocked.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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#205019 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 15:50 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xoacV-89M-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205018

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:32:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2019 08:42:01 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > http://www.wvsto.com/Unclaimed-Property/Search-Claim
> >
> > It doesn't even connect for me. I lean even more strongly
> > towards incompetent web "programmers". Sigh.
> >
> > Cheers
> > -- t
> You're trying to access it from a .de domain? Probably blocked, although 
> I was alerted by a NY resident who wasn't blocked.

I'd guess the same. But... now it gets interesting: blocked by whom?
China? North Korea?

Hmmm.

Cheers
-- t

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#205021 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Date	2019-02-05 16:20 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xoaFY-8f-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205019

	Hi.

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 03:41:30PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:32:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 February 2019 08:42:01 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:58:11AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > http://www.wvsto.com/Unclaimed-Property/Search-Claim
> > >
> > > It doesn't even connect for me. I lean even more strongly
> > > towards incompetent web "programmers". Sigh.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > -- t
> > You're trying to access it from a .de domain? Probably blocked, although 
> > I was alerted by a NY resident who wasn't blocked.
> 
> I'd guess the same. But... now it gets interesting: blocked by whom?
> China? North Korea?

Site owner, of course. (No)thanks to GDPR, it's easier for US site to
block any visitor from Europe than to comply with legal regulations.

Reco

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#205022 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 16:40 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xoaZl-f6-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 06:11:15PM +0300, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 03:41:30PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> > China? North Korea?
> 
> Site owner, of course. (No)thanks to GDPR, it's easier for US site to
> block any visitor from Europe than to comply with legal regulations.

;-P

But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly
and don't serve javascript nasties. In short, don't be an asshole.

Funny that site owners have so many qualms over that...

Cheers
-- t

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#205024 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk>
Date	2019-02-05 17:10 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xobsm-F7-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:34:49 +0100
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

Hello tomas@tuxteam.de,

>But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly

I'm in the UK and can connect to the site in question.  Therefore,
it's probably not a GDPR issue.

-- 
 Regards  _
         / )           "The blindingly obvious is
        / _)rad        never immediately apparent"
Dream on white boy, dream on black girl
Original Sin - INXS

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#205026 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Date	2019-02-05 17:20 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xobC2-IF-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205024

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 04:06:12PM +0000, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:34:49 +0100
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello tomas@tuxteam.de,
> 
> >But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly
> 
> I'm in the UK and can connect to the site in question.  Therefore,
> it's probably not a GDPR issue.

Or just lacking geographical knowledge among the web devels (or their
legal department).

Yeah. I'm having one of those days :-(

Cheers, anyway ;-)
-- t

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#205029 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	Elmo <moelmoel2714@gmail.com>
Date	2019-02-05 19:00 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xodaN-1vJ-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205024

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Brad Rogers wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:34:49 +0100
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
> Hello tomas@tuxteam.de,
>
>> But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly
>
> I'm in the UK and can connect to the site in question.  Therefore,
> it's probably not a GDPR issue.
>
>

ditto from Madrid, Spain.

fjd

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#205033 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Date	2019-02-05 20:10 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xoegx-2o3-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205029

On 2019-02-05, Elmo <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:34:49 +0100
>> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello tomas@tuxteam.de,
>>
>>> But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly
>>
>> I'm in the UK and can connect to the site in question.  Therefore,
>> it's probably not a GDPR issue.
>>
>>
>
> ditto from Madrid, Spain.

No ditto here from just outside gay Paris (well, some ten miles out as
the duck flies). I say duck because they (ducks) seem to fly really
straight and fast and true, whereas a crow kind of dawdles and diddles
and circles and fiddles.

So I used an online proxy located in the old US of A.  My version of
Firefox worked fine on the WV Treasurer's Office site (though my search
returned no results, maybe because Gene doesn't have any unclaimed
property over there in WV, as I entered his name as a test case).

> fjd
>
>

-- 

When you have fever you are heavy and light, you are small and swollen, you
climb endlessly a ladder which turns like a wheel. 
Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

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#205036 — Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?

From	Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Date	2019-02-05 20:50 +0100
Subject	Re: What am I missing that causes this error response from the wheezy mozilla?
Message-ID	<xoeTg-2BK-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to	#205033

On Tue 05 Feb 2019 at 19:03:15 -0000, Curt wrote:

> On 2019-02-05, Elmo <moelmoel2714@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Brad Rogers wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:34:49 +0100
> >> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello tomas@tuxteam.de,
> >>
> >>> But it would be so easy to comply with GDPR: rotate logs regularly
> >>
> >> I'm in the UK and can connect to the site in question.  Therefore,
> >> it's probably not a GDPR issue.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ditto from Madrid, Spain.
> 
> No ditto here from just outside gay Paris (well, some ten miles out as
> the duck flies). I say duck because they (ducks) seem to fly really
> straight and fast and true, whereas a crow kind of dawdles and diddles
> and circles and fiddles.

Research has shown that ducks have a much greater appreciation of the
space-time continuum than crows. Maybe that comes from living for part
of the time in a medium more susceptible to gravity.

> So I used an online proxy located in the old US of A.  My version of
> Firefox worked fine on the WV Treasurer's Office site (though my search
> returned no results, maybe because Gene doesn't have any unclaimed
> property over there in WV, as I entered his name as a test case).

Not a valid test. You didn't use a clapped out version of Debian.

-- 
Brian.

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