Hi,
Lately I’ve been unable to open links embedded in posts. Curiously, they do work if I open them in a new tab (Chrome, ctrl+click).
For example, in this post I added a link to:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sec:module_substitution
Clicking on that link takes me to
https://discuss.gradle.org/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.gradle.org%2Fcurrent%2Fuserguide%2Fdependency_management.html%3F%26_ga%3D1.144685877.1298902563.1401131382%23sec%3Amodule_substitution&post_id=56281&topic_id=18661
which results in a blank page. However, opening the link in a new tab takes me to
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html?&_ga=1.144685877.1298902563.1401131382#sec:module_substitution
which works.
I had some collegues verify that they are seeing similar behaviour.
Chris
Rene
July 27, 2016, 8:35am
2
Thanks for the report. I can reproduce this issue with chrome. It seems to work well with Safari though. It seems like an issue with discourse, the forum software we use for discuss.gradle.org . Maybe one of the discuss developers @sam , @eviltrout or @codinghorror have an idea?
cheers,
Hmm, one workaround might be to escape the colon for now:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sec%3Amodule_substitution
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sec%3Amodule_substitution
Nope, it doesn’t like that either. @eviltrout you should have a look.
I just tried here in Chrome and it seems to be working?
Is it possible we already fixed this somehow? Or am I reproducing it wrong?
Rene
August 17, 2016, 6:12pm
5
@eviltrout1 just simple clicking the link in this post: Resolving dependency conflict in gradle when artifact name is different results in a blank page. can you reproduce this? I’m using chrome Version 52.0.2743.116 (64-bit) on osx.
cheers,
luke_daley
August 17, 2016, 11:13pm
6
Rene
August 18, 2016, 6:57pm
7
@eviltrout any update on this? We’re getting more & more compliants from our community about this issue.
Hi Rene,
I am on the exact same version of Chrome, and I can’t reproduce it. Here’s what I’m doing:
Clicking the link in your post
Clicking the link in the post “See Substituting…”
Is it still happening for you right this second? Or has it resolved itself before I got a chance to look at it?
eviltrout1
August 22, 2016, 5:14pm
10
I just clicked all three of those links and they are working for me. I swear I’m not trying to be difficult here, I just can’t reproduce it!
Is it still broken when you click the links? Is there some difference between my account and yours perhaps?
luke_daley
August 23, 2016, 2:09am
11
It’s broken for me even with curl. The third link from @Chris_Dore yields a URL of https://discuss.gradle.org/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.gradle.org%2Fcurrent%2Fjavadoc%2Forg%2Fgradle%2Fapi%2Ftasks%2FAbstractCopyTask.html%3F_ga%3D1.15536054.1064984608.1413368436%23copy()&post_id=57410&topic_id=18691
$ curl -i 'https://discuss.gradle.org/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.gradle.org%2Fcurrent%2Fjavadoc%2Forg%2Fgradle%2Fapi%2Ftasks%2FAbstractCopyTask.html%3F_ga%3D1.15536054.1064984608.1413368436%23copy()&post_id=57410&topic_id=18691'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.11.3
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:06:19 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Discourse-Route: clicks/track
Set-Cookie: _forum_session=K1R2cmRabGk4cnp4WGU5bmp2dGQxQ0lSOUllYkJaK0FMWTJEWnZPdkx0TjZVQ1JlYVgxb0U0SEdUSTcrekFxcXZ1em1Rd3dGZklPUldxcC9VTmVTWmc9PS0taEQ1VHNWcWFNcmpyNFB1bmdZZkFZZz09--b491872b2aadc5cc5d9d94d9d0c59358451a6802; path=/; HttpOnly; Secure
X-Request-Id: 16f6424f-e33e-4768-beba-dc008e511f99
X-Runtime: 0.052966
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Discourse-Proxy-ID: app-router-tiefighter31
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31415926
If I try the first link in @Chris_Dore ’s list above, and track the activity with the web inspector I see that it goes through the following redirect that works https://discuss.gradle.org/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.gradle.org%2Fcurrent%2Frelease-notes%3F_ga%3D1.14534583.1064984608.1413368436&post_id=57410&topic_id=18691
$ curl -i 'https://discuss.gradle.org/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.gradle.org%2Fcurrent%2Frelease-notes%3F_ga%3D1.14534583.1064984608.1413368436&post_id=57410&topic_id=18691'
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: nginx/1.11.3
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 02:08:13 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Discourse-Route: clicks/track
Location: https://docs.gradle.org/current/release-notes?_ga=1.14534583.1064984608.1413368436
Set-Cookie: _forum_session=dXk2WUZXM1BCZXNNNTJhN1MyOHR5b25ZRllmWFpRc0lMTmF4bEhkSmdJbFovV2dldm02TU5ZNWVGYkFZTWdsd0c3WVB3RjRleEVJQW1hd2JrQVo1UGc9PS0tWFdLUjlKR3NCajNvOUlLVEVjZlVnQT09--dce8f3b67f1af2a3535991f0be20fb98f940212a; path=/; HttpOnly; Secure
X-Request-Id: c7f17b34-2ec2-4c89-9d9c-63afd392ee09
X-Runtime: 0.004042
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Discourse-Proxy-ID: app-router-tiefighter31
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31415926
<html><body>You are being <a href="https://docs.gradle.org/current/release-notes?_ga=1.14534583.1064984608.1413368436">redirected</a>.</body></html>
eviltrout1
August 23, 2016, 3:03pm
12
Aha the curl was a good clue - I can reproduce it via private browsing mode now.
Now to figure out what’s up and fix it!
eviltrout
August 23, 2016, 4:14pm
13
It seems google analytics here has cross domain tracking turned on, which was adding query parameters to URLs for tracking. This was causing our redirect code to fail as the URL was changing from what we were allowing.
Here’s a fix for the issue:
Next time we deploy the site it should fix the issue.
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Chris_Dore
August 26, 2016, 7:12pm
14
Great work guys! Thank you for getting this resolved.
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