I see what you mean now, it does the same thing for me in Firefox. I suspect it
has to do with the site using relative links. You are indeed looking at the
same page in each case, and the code for a sample Date link looks like this:
href="2010-05/index.html". When you click on it, it's supposed to append that
partial URL to the main URL, resulting in either:
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/2010-05/index.html
or
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus2010-05/index.html
depending on whether that / is there or not. Only the former destination
actually exists. What I don't understand is how that latter URL takes you to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/2010-05/index.html instead. I suspect that
our web browsers see that there's a slash missing and "fix" the problem by
dropping the last part of the main URL instead of just adding the slash in.
I was going to say that this must be a rare problem, only occuring when people
type the URL in, but I vaguely remember seeing it myself at some stage. It
could be fixed if the site used absolute URLs (specifying the whole destination
instead of just the last part) or possibly just by adding a
base href=http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/ tag in the head
section of the page, which I notice is incomplete.
An interesting problem, which led me to have a look around the site, so now I
know a little more about fauna monitoring using motion detection cameras and
recording devices, the need to guard against orthopteran acoustic sabotage, and
indeed what an orthopteran is and why one religious group cares about the
location of their knees.
Peter Shute
________________________________________
From: On
Behalf Of Frank O'Connor
Sent: Saturday, 8 May 2010 9:21 PM
To:
Subject: birding-aus Archives - IE Access
This problem is very perplexing. Some more information. And finally the
solution.
As I said previously, on my new laptop I can get to the birding-aus
Archives at http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus with no
problems. But when I click on the Date next to the month I get the error
message "HTTP 424 The webpage cannot be found" It is trying to connect to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/2010-05/index.html
Using Google, I found the following message about "Swift Parrots" at
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/2010-04/msg00101.html from
where I can click on Date at the top left to get to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/2010-04/index.html#00101
and then at the top left I can click on Next Period to get to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/birding-aus/2010-05/index.html
which is effectively where I want to get to.
On this computer (my old computer) when I go to the archives and click on
the Date next to the month it connects to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/2010-05/index.html
So why is my new computer trying to connect to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/2010-05/index.html (without the
/birding-aus)???????? It is the same web page
So I went back to the birding-aus home page at www.birding-aus.org and
clicked on Archive at the top. Here the link is
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/ and this takes me to
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/birding-aus/ and the link to the Date
next to the month is fine and works!! So why does putting the final / make
a difference????
So problem solved, but I am still confused.
_________________________________________________________________
Frank O'Connor Birding WA http://birdingwa.iinet.net.au
Phone : (08) 9386 5694 Email :
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