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Bug 143259

Summary: Visiting a direct plugin link requires two visits if a session is not available
Product: updatecenters Reporter: _ wadechandler <wadechandler>
Component: PluginportalAssignee: David Botterill <dbotterill>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P2    
Version: 6.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:

Description _ wadechandler 2008-08-08 02:07:17 UTC
When ever I have to visit a direct plug-in link and I have visited the plug-in portal web site during the browser
session, I am first directed to the main plug-in portal page. I then have to copy and paste or click on the link I
clicked previously to actually take me to the plug-in portal web site. I have tested this on two computers Firefox 2.x.
The operating system is Windows XP home and professional (different versions of XP). I have also tested this with
Internet Explorer 7. I found this while trying to evaluate the NetBeans SPOT Plug-in at:

http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=11774
Comment 1 David Botterill 2008-08-08 04:32:52 UTC

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 124376 ***
Comment 2 David Botterill 2008-08-08 04:37:59 UTC
Oops!  Referred to wrong duplicate.
Comment 3 David Botterill 2008-08-08 04:38:33 UTC

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 136922 ***