[GSB]

Is the Colt website just plain broken? I've been trying to access the Commercial section for weeks and it doesn't work with IE, Mozilla or Opera for me. I doubt there are any security settings I've set that are causing this.

Is it just that Colt doesn't care about their public website anymore? It doesn't give a very positive public image if that's the case.

[41mag]

I was just there.Worked fine.:confused:

[tc300mag1]

i can never get it to come up past the catalog selection either

[GSB]

Yes, let me stipulate that this is when you try to access one of the three catalogs. The main page seems to come up just fine, but I can't get at the catalogs anymore. Kind of annoying.

I realize this should have been in General Gun Discussions. Sorry for the mispost.

[JoeW]

Try this link: http://www.colt.com/cmci/home.asp

I think it is because it has a reverse slash in the link from the front page.
Link from Colt.com front page: http://www.colt.com/CMCI\home.asp

Hope that helps.
JoeW

[41mag]

I just went in again.Just listened to the corny music & proceded to check the stats on the 9mm carbine in the military section.I always use the link through THRs library.No problem.:confused:

[Parker Dean]

Oh yeah, I remember some IT type complaining about that backwards stroke in the the address some time back when somebody else couldn't get the site. Said it's not really proper, but that most browsers should be able to handle it. He went on to say that it was pretty sloppy for whoever set up the site to make such a mistake, but then to compound the mistake by leaving it there was worse.

[GSB]

Thanks everyone. I tried it from work and it works with IE from there, but not with Mozilla unless I use the corrected link from above, so I think the problem is a) my security setting for IE at home, given that this is an active server page (I usually keep it pretty locked down due to some of IE's security holes and I must not have opened it back up), and b) it just doesn't play well with Mozilla with that slash in there like that.

Hey Colt, it's a two second fix, make it.

[middy]

Mozilla is designed to be multiplatform and standards compliant. It was also redesigned from the ground up fairly recently. I would guess that their filesystem traversal code is more modular and separated entirely from their URL resolution code, thus backslashes are only recognized in a Windows filesystem context.

Of course, to placate the idiots, maybe Mozilla should allow a backslash in URLs. :fire:

[grimlock]

The mistake is doubly stupid because, if you hover over the picture for the Commercial part of the site, the URL has the backslash, but if you hover over the word COMMERCIAL, the URL has the correct forward slash.

[Parker Dean]

Interesting.

I use Firefox and I decided to try the link above with the "backslash". The address bar showed: http://www.colt.com/CMCI%5Chome.asp

Notice the backslash has been rendered as "%5C"

Anyway it sorta went to the site but none of the pics loaded.

Going from the above link with the correct forward slash, the site loaded correctly.

I may drop in over Firefox forum (http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4
) and mention it. Or not :)

[EdipisReks]

in the past, i've been able to get to the commericial catalog by going through the military section and then clicking on the link to the commercial catalog that is there.