3.5 problems w/commercial sites

I thought I'd share some of the problems I've had using some commercial web
sites with Opera 3.50:

1. Cyberian Outpost: www.outpost.com

Problem: Select an item (any item) and then click the "Buy It" link.
Outpost complains that "Your shopping cart is empty!". Maybe there's some
problem with how a cookie is getting stored?

2. Microsoft Expedia: www.expedia.com

Problem: From the main page, type some flight info into the Fare Finder
form, and click Go. Opera displays a dialog with unknown filetype
"multipart/x-mixed-replace". If you click Use Opera, Opera will display the
source code instead of the rendered page. Apparently Opera simply hasn't a
clue what to do with documents of this MIME type.

3. Fidelity Web Xpress: https://webxpress.fidelity.com (customers only)

Problem: From the Login page, enter your SSN and PIN and click Login.
Instead of continuing to the main page, Opera redisplays the Login page. In
order to force Opera to display the main page, you must then manually enter
the URL "https://webxpress.fidelity.com". Perhaps there's a problem with
the HTTP Redirect option?

It's problems like these that keep Opera from becoming viable for day-to-day
use. I hope some fixes or workarounds are in the works.

--Ed

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Ed Swierk
eswierk@cs.stanford.edu

In article <74qd52$10j$1@traviata.nta.no>, Ed Swierk says...

> I thought I'd share some of the problems I've had using some commercial web
> sites with Opera 3.50:
>
> 1. Cyberian Outpost: www.outpost.com
>
> Problem: Select an item (any item) and then click the "Buy It" link.
> Outpost complains that "Your shopping cart is empty!". Maybe there's some
> problem with how a cookie is getting stored?

I've had this same problem on other sites with "shopping carts". The
puzzling thing is that there were fewer problems before this version.

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> It's problems like these that keep Opera from becoming viable for day-to-day
> use. I hope some fixes or workarounds are in the works.

I guess that depends on what your day-to-day use consists of mostly, but
O definitely has problems with these kind of pages. I generally use
Netscape for them.

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Ford