[imp] imp problem, login works w/ IE but not firefox

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting John Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu>:

> So then I displayed that page by itself (not in a frame) and got the same
> error message. It is a syntax error on line 618.  That's in the update
> function. Line 618 is the right brace (between the comments and the line
> beginning with Window) in the code below:
>
>
>
> function update()
> {
>     var client = new HTTPClient();
>      
> client.init("https://www.math.wisc.edu/horde3/services/portal/sidebar.php?httpclient=1");
>
>     try {
>         client.asyncGET(MenuUpdateHandler);
>     } catch (e) {
>         // Don't do anything on errors; probably a transient failure,
>         // and we'll try again after the next interval.
>     }
>     window.setTimeout('update();',  * 1000);

Yeah, nothing useful there unfortunately.

> None of this looks very helpful to me. Possibly the script errors are a red
> herring. I was hoping that somebody else had experienced the main problem,
> login works with IE but not firefox.  You get bumped back to the login
> screen even though the log says login was successful.

That's a session problem, most often caused by cookies. Have you made  
sure that Horde is setting cookies for /horde3 and not for /horde?

> Here's the firefox error console content:
>
> Warning: Unknown property 'text-overflow'.  Declaration dropped.
> Source File: https://www.math.wisc.edu/horde3/imp/themes/screen.css
> Line: 40
> Warning: Use of captureEvents() is deprecated, see bug 330494.
> Source File: https://www.math.wisc.edu/horde3/imp/login.php
> Line: 0

Neither of those are script errors that would stop login, unfortunately.

-chuck