From: Garrett Smith on
Twitter.com website uses a login URI that is inaccessible; the user
cannot log in using the form UI. Attempting to log in to twitter.com in
Firefox, for example, the browser displays the error to the user

| Server not found
| Firefox can't find the server at staging45.local.twitter.com.
| * Check the address for typing errors such as
| ww.example.com instead of
| www.example.com
|
| * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
| connection.
|
| * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy,
| make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

It's not a Firefox issue; it's that Twitter.com's login FORM's action
references a URI that cannot be accessed (staging45.local.twitter.com).

To login to twitter via web, go to http://twitter.com and change the
form's action, either using Firebug or with this bookmarklet:

javascript:void(document.getElementById("signin").action = "/sessions");

There's been a host of other problems, including broken back button, as
well as some bad approaches used in the javascript.
--
Garrett
From: David Mark on
On Jul 12, 5:51 pm, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitc...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Twitter.com website uses a login URI that is inaccessible; the user
> cannot log in using the form UI. Attempting to log in to twitter.com in
> Firefox, for example, the browser displays the error to the user
>
> | Server not found
> | Firefox can't find the server at staging45.local.twitter.com.
> |  * Check the address for typing errors such as
> |      ww.example.com instead of
> |      www.example.com
> |
> |  * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
> |  connection.
> |
> |  * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy,
> | make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>
> It's not a Firefox issue; it's that Twitter.com's login FORM's action
> references a URI that cannot be accessed (staging45.local.twitter.com).
>
> To login to twitter via web, go tohttp://twitter.comand change the
> form's action, either using Firebug or with this bookmarklet:
>
> javascript:void(document.getElementById("signin").action = "/sessions");
>
> There's been a host of other problems, including broken back button, as
> well as some bad approaches used in the javascript.
> --

Yes, that site is some piece of work. Their biggest mistake was
hiring jQuery Ninjas to write the front-end. If investors could
comprehend the ramifications of such decisions, there'd be far less
major disasters out there.
From: Garrett Smith on
On 2010-07-12 05:00 PM, David Mark wrote:
> On Jul 12, 5:51 pm, Garrett Smith<dhtmlkitc...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Twitter.com website uses a login URI that is inaccessible; the user
>> cannot log in using the form UI. Attempting to log in to twitter.com in
>> Firefox, for example, the browser displays the error to the user
>>
>> | Server not found
>> | Firefox can't find the server at staging45.local.twitter.com.
>> | * Check the address for typing errors such as
>> | ww.example.com instead of
>> | www.example.com
>> |
>> | * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
>> | connection.
>> |
>> | * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy,
>> | make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>>
>> It's not a Firefox issue; it's that Twitter.com's login FORM's action
>> references a URI that cannot be accessed (staging45.local.twitter.com).
>>
>> To login to twitter via web, go tohttp://twitter.comand change the
......................................^

There was a space character (U+0020) there.

>> form's action, either using Firebug or with this bookmarklet:
>>
>> javascript:void(document.getElementById("signin").action = "/sessions");
>>
>> There's been a host of other problems, including broken back button, as
>> well as some bad approaches used in the javascript.
>> --
>
And there, though it, as well as the previous two characters which
remain, should have been removed by the responder.
--
Garrett