Problem with cloaked/masked/stealth domain forwards Publisher 2003

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Rod Speed - 29 Sep 2005 06:54 GMT

When using cloaked/masked/stealthed domain forwards with web sites produced
with Publisher 2003 and 2002, the subsidiary pages dont work, you just get a
blank screen with the name of the subsidiary page htm in the status bar with
IE6.

Works fine with Firefox, so it appears to be a bug in IE6.

Non cloaked/masked/stealthed domain forwards work fine.

Makes no difference if the Web Site Options in Publisher
'Organize supporting files in a folder' is ticked or not.

Publisher 2000 works fine, but it only uses HTML 2.0,
not the XHTML that 2002 and 2003 use.

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David Bartosik - 30 Sep 2005 07:46 GMT

This is due to Publishers use of relative links versus absolute links. I
believe this is covered on the FAQ
http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=30 page. A workaround is to
force the use of absolute links. For example in the hyperlink dialog do not
select the "page in document" option, instead pick the web address option and
explictly input the page URL.

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> When using cloaked/masked/stealthed domain forwards with web sites produced
> with Publisher 2003 and 2002, the subsidiary pages dont work, you just get a
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> Publisher 2000 works fine, but it only uses HTML 2.0,
> not the XHTML that 2002 and 2003 use.

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Rod Speed - 03 Oct 2005 07:04 GMT

> This is due to Publishers use of relative links versus absolute links.

Nope, relative links work fine with Publisher 2000 and firefox with 2003.

> I believe this is covered on the FAQ
> http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=30 page.

Nope, not when it works fine with forwarded
domains that arent cloaked/stealthed/masked

> A workaround is to force the use of absolute links. For example
> in the hyperlink dialog do not select the "page in document" option,
> instead pick the web address option and explictly input the page URL.

Doesnt help with the links to subsidiary pages that Publisher inserts itself.
There isnt even any obvious way to specify that those should be absolute.
And the relative links work fine for embedded images etc too.

Like I said, it appears to be a bug in the VML
handling in IE6 since firefox handles it fine.

>> When using cloaked/masked/stealthed domain forwards with
>> web sites produced with Publisher 2003 and 2002, the subsidiary
>> pages dont work, you just get a blank screen with the name
>> of the subsidiary page htm in the status bar with IE6.

>> Works fine with Firefox, so it appears to be a bug in IE6.

>> Non cloaked/masked/stealthed domain forwards work fine.

>> Makes no difference if the Web Site Options in Publisher
>> 'Organize supporting files in a folder' is ticked or not.

>> Publisher 2000 works fine, but it only uses HTML 2.0,
>> not the XHTML that 2002 and 2003 use.

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