During more tesing of hotspot-advertising, I found the following issue:
Using Firefox, pop-ups enabled, Vista, Mikrotik 3.17
When I am in this forum, AND click to open a new topic fo reading, AND the pop-up with the advertisement shows up, after clsong the pop-up wondow I see the message on this BB:
“Requested topic does not exist”. So I have to navigate back with the back-button of FF to open it again.
When editing this message, an advertisement popped up, after pressing the “Submit Button”.
And all my input was lost.
Fortunately I made a “Copy” of my edited text before “Submit”, because I know this bug already
I do not know this http stuff, but your suspicion sounds reasonable.
No serious responses until now, may be beacuse of weekend, should a file an official report to Mikrotik support ?
I have no license bought, because I first want to check, whether OS suits me. And containing this bug, unfortunately it will not.
I read and responded to your other post on this subject. MikroTik has been very good about fixing known bugs. But it is not just a quick patch in most cases. The changes or corrections made must not adversely affect any other functions. And they interconnect in so many ways.
They will probably not see this until Monday morning Latvia Time. But I will suspect that either normis or one of the other MT crew will respond.
ADD: The hotspot popup window is a unique name. It is ‘hotspot-advert’. Found it on the status.html page. That should not cause any challenges.
Great to hear about their fast reaction regarding bug fixes.
But it is not just a quick patch in most cases. The changes or corrections made must not adversely affect any other functions. And they interconnect in so many ways.<
About 30 years ago, when I started programming in Assembler, I already was obeying the principles of “Modular Design” and “Modular Programming”. Times have changed, obviously
Yes, times have changed, but not the “modular design” part. I started programming in 1983 using the modular approach, and I still use it, as I am certain MikroTik does. However, where a module back then was called by one or two other modules, the changes were easy. But if the module is now being used by dozens of internal modules, a change can be more difficult.
Yes, the times, they are changing. Bug fixing simply by ignoring. I am not very impressed by the answer, I got. To blame the hardware is the excuse of every bad programmer.
Correct, but “A single bug does not a bad programmer make.”
Normis responded in a kinda-Monday-morning fashion. Trust me, if this is a true bug, they want to know.
If you have not seen the other post, is there anything about your ad page that would cause a hang there? Have you tried a simple test page for the ad popup? Does that stall also?
Normis would like a copy of your ad page to see if there may be something there to help.
