blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
The Telephone Preference Service website (www.tpsonline.co.uk) produces a blank page in Netsurf. The URL bar changes to show that it's PHP. Netsurf build #891 here on Iyonix 5.1 -- same behaviour whether Javascript on or off. The only item visible is smallprint links at the top right of the blank acre: "Contact | Make a complaint | Privacy & cookies" and Netsurf at bottom left reporting "Done (0.8s)". The Google search for "telephone preference service" also shows a half-dozen sub-pages at the TPS site -- all blank in Netsurf. -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk See you at Wakefield? www.wakefieldshow.org.uk April 20
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
In message Jim Nagel wrote: > The Telephone Preference Service website (www.tpsonline.co.uk) > produces a blank page in Netsurf. The URL bar changes to show that > it's PHP. > Netsurf build #891 here on Iyonix 5.1 -- same behaviour whether > Javascript on or off. FWIW I see I'm using r13401 and see a wide blue bar across the top which includes their welcome frame at top left and a search window in the middle. Immediately below the bar the underlined words Privacy Policy are in blue. -- BW Chris F. [Supporting British RISC OS computing.] Skype: c.n.l.f Twitter: MrChrisGB Blogsite: mr-chris-gb.blogspot.com Support active democracy with '@38_degrees'.
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
On 15 Mar 2013 Jim Nagel wrote: > The Telephone Preference Service website (www.tpsonline.co.uk) > produces a blank page in Netsurf. The URL bar changes to show that > it's PHP. > Netsurf build #891 here on Iyonix 5.1 -- same behaviour whether > Javascript on or off. > The only item visible is smallprint links at the top right of the > blank acre: "Contact | Make a complaint | Privacy & cookies" and > Netsurf at bottom left reporting "Done (0.8s)". > The Google search for "telephone preference service" also shows a > half-dozen sub-pages at the TPS site -- all blank in Netsurf. Even more curious. If you look at that page in Windows Firefox it looks suspiciously like a phishing page, with links "Related searches, Loans, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Insurance". It's still a pretty skeletal page, and none of the links work, perhaps because I use Ghostery, which makes me more suspicious of this page. However, http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html also produces a skeletal page in NetSurf, and I've reported this on the bug-tracker. With best wishes, Peter. -- Peter Young (zfc Ta) and family Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos. GL52, England http://pnyoung.orpheusweb.co.uk pnyo...@ormail.co.uk
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
In message <1555d02c53.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> Peter Young wrote: [snip] > Even more curious. If you look at that page in Windows Firefox it > looks suspiciously like a phishing page, with links "Related searches, > Loans, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Insurance". It's still a pretty > skeletal page, and none of the links work, perhaps because I use > Ghostery, which makes me more suspicious of this page. [snip] *whois tpsonline.co.uk Domain name: tpsonline.co.uk Registrant: K Askew Registrant type: UK Individual -- Brian Jordan Virtual RPC-AdjustSA on Windows 8 RISC OS 6.20
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > The Telephone Preference Service website (www.tpsonline.co.uk) > produces a blank page in Netsurf. The URL bar changes to show that > it's PHP. Just realised, that's a URL squatters' page. the Telephone Preference Service are here www.tpsonline.ORG.uk But that's no better...masses of javascript and a nearly blank page. Both Firefox in the Pee Sea and NetSurf are struggling with the complaints page security certificate. A dog's breakfast. -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
In article , Jim Nagel wrote: > Netsurf build #891 here on Iyonix 5.1 -- same behaviour whether > Javascript on or off. If you do a full save of one of the pages, a bit of minor editing of the html allows the page to be viewed (I assume) normally in NetSurf. It may be a bit of dodgy CSS although there is some javascript at the head of the page. -- Chris Johnson
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
In article <2c3bd42c53.br...@brian.jordan9.btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan wrote: > In message <1555d02c53.pnyo...@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk> Peter Young >wrote: > [snip] > > Even more curious. If you look at that page in Windows Firefox it > > looks suspiciously like a phishing page, with links "Related > > searches, Loans, Mortgages, Credit Cards, Insurance". It's still a > > pretty skeletal page, and none of the links work, perhaps because I > > use Ghostery, which makes me more suspicious of this page. > [snip] > *whois tpsonline.co.uk > Domain name: tpsonline.co.uk > Registrant: K Askew > Registrant type: UK Individual www.tpsonline.co.uk < Squatter www.tpsonline.org.uk < TPS Hard to tell the difference in NetSurf thanks to both being extensively javascript reliant but the latter is the TPS - the former a URL squatter. -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
Jim Nagel wrote on 15 Mar: > The Telephone Preference Service website (XXXwww.tpsonline.co.uk) > produces a blank page in Netsurf. The URL bar changes to show that > it's PHP. My error; sorry. I was actually talking about, and meant to type, www.tpsonline.ORG.uk As others in this thread have pointed out, the CO.uk site looks like a squatter attempting to do what might in other contexts be called "passing off". Is my mention of PHP at all relevant? Is the website's PHP code generating Javascript? -- Jim Nagelwww.archivemag.co.uk >> before emailing large files (>1Mb), please ask me for FTP details See you at Wakefield? www.wakefieldshow.org.uk April 20
Re: blank PHP output from Telephone Preference Service
In article <0cdbd72c53@nails.abbeypress.net>, Jim Nagel wrote: > Is my mention of PHP at all relevant? Not really. > Is the website's PHP code > generating Javascript? It may be. PHP could be used for assembling pages from frequently-used fragments which contain HTML, more PHP and Javascript; even the statements may be assembled using PHP variables. There's really no other link between them: the PHP script operates on the server and javascript operates in your browser. PHP is no more at fault than if the pages were assembled on the fly by BBC Basic. Here's a really simple PHP page from one of my sites: It constructs a news page from common elements. Things like the DOCTYPE only have to be got right once and my frequent edits are made only to news/body.htm. The first and other snipped fragments are used site-wide. More complexity can be introduced with variables and conditionals to write stuff to the HTML page which is delivered to browsers. PHP is very useful if pages contain conditional content or PayPal and social media buttons which can be kept discreetly and updated without having to resort to wading though acres of HTML splat on one massive page. The complete page isn't built by the PHP interpreter until news.php is requested. PHP isn't a sign of anything bad: it is merely an adjunct to a web server. But a website which relies only on Javascript for layout without providing an alternative when it lacks in a browser is jolly bad form and generally frowned upon. Unfortunately, now that smartphones and other portable kit has a clutch of reasonably capable browsers which can manage javascript any complaints these days are likely to fall on deaf ears. -- Tim Hill .. www.timil.com
