Foreign Aid Search Bug

[kenai]

Basically when I click "Search Foreign Aid" on a nation the resulting screen showed no aid.

http://www.cybernations.net/search_aid.asp?search=396411&Extended=1

I was searching my members aid to arrange tech deals, when i clicked "Search Foreign Aid" I was taken to the Login screen since I haven't done anything for 10 mins. I just click sign in and it took me to that members Foreign Aid screen as linked before. I got him 5 deals then the buyers told me he only has 1 slot open.

So that link is showing false info for members when they sign in to view aid.

To fix it I had to go back to the nation screen and go into the Search Foreign Aid again. Im using Google Chrome and the bug works with mozilla.

[Fizzydog]

This always happens. If you are logged out and click into a link to, say, a nation search page then nothing will show up. I don't know why it happens, but it just does. Get used to it.

[Sakura]

This is because of how the URL transforms during a "logged out" to "logged in" transition.

[code]Logged in: http://www.cybernations.net/search_aid.asp?search=396411&Extended=1
"During" login: http://www.cybernations.net/login.asp?accessdenied=%2Fsearch_aid.asp%3Fsearch%3D396411%26amp%3BExtended%3D1
Logged out-logged in: http://www.cybernations.net/search_aid.asp?search=396411&Extended=1[/code]

Notice the &? & is the HTML code for ampersand (&).
In the During login, its %26amp%3B -- %26 is &, so what happens is the & is turned into &, and the amp; that was already there is kept.

This produces the result you see.

Edit: A user-side work-around is to always click wars/aid a *second* time if you see none.

Edited April 23, 2010 by Sakura

[New Carnoly]

I wish I was that smart with all the URL this URL that.