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[racket-dev] language-specific documentation failed on 5.1.1

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Jul 18 19:34:07 EDT 2011		 
An hour and a half ago, Guillaume Marceau wrote:
> The temporary file send-url creates contains:
> 
> <html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh"
> content="0;URL=file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/gmarceau/Application%20Data/Racket/
> 5.1.2.3/doc/search/search-context.html?q=w&hq=O%3A%7B%20L%3Alang%2Fhtdp-beginner%20T%3Ateachpack%20%7D&label=Beginning%20Student"></head><body>Please
> go <a
> href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/gmarceau/Application%20Data/Racket/
> 5.1.2.3/doc/search/search-context.html?q=w&hq=O%3A%7B%20L%3Alang%2Fhtdp-beginner%20T%3Ateachpack%20%7D&label=Beginning%20Student
> ">here</a>.</body></html>

If it's creating that file, it means that it works as it should.
It's a trampoline file, which is there because you can't start a URL
that contains "?"s on windows.


> but if I paste that url into my browser, it immediately rewrite itself to:
> 
> file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/gmarceau/Application%20Data/Racket/5.1.2.3/doc/search/index.html?q=w
> 
> This is on Windows using Chrome, but our student were seeing this same
> behavior on Windows using Firefox.

The target of this file is search-context.html, which is a different
trampoline -- translatnig the "hq" (hidden query) parameter into a
cookie.  (See the JS code in it.)  So this works as expected too, and
you should have a cookie set.  This is at least on FF, IIRC.  (I think
that one browser, perhaps chrome, had an issue with cookies stored
this way.)

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