How to login to Twitter via Web (@twitter)

[Garrett Smith]

Twitter.com website uses a login URI that is inaccessible; the user
cannot log in using the form UI. Attempting to log in to twitter.com in
Firefox, for example, the browser displays the error to the user

| Server not found
| Firefox can't find the server at staging45.local.twitter.com.
| * Check the address for typing errors such as
| ww.example.com instead of
| www.example.com
|
| * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
| connection.
|
| * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy,
| make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

It's not a Firefox issue; it's that Twitter.com's login FORM's action
references a URI that cannot be accessed (staging45.local.twitter.com).

To login to twitter via web, go to http://twitter.com and change the
form's action, either using Firebug or with this bookmarklet:

javascript:void(document.getElementById("signin").action = "/sessions");

There's been a host of other problems, including broken back button, as
well as some bad approaches used in the javascript.

 

[David Mark]

Twitter.com website uses a login URI that is inaccessible; the user
cannot log in using the form UI. Attempting to log in to twitter.com in
Firefox, for example, the browser displays the error to the user

| Server not found
| Firefox can't find the server at staging45.local.twitter.com.
|  * Check the address for typing errors such as
|      ww.example.com instead of
|      www.example.com
|
|  * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
|  connection.
|
|  * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy,
| make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

It's not a Firefox issue; it's that Twitter.com's login FORM's action
references a URI that cannot be accessed (staging45.local.twitter.com).

To login to twitter via web, go tohttp://twitter.comand change the
form's action, either using Firebug or with this bookmarklet:

javascript:void(document.getElementById("signin").action = "/sessions");

There's been a host of other problems, including broken back button, as
well as some bad approaches used in the javascript.
--

Yes, that site is some piece of work. Their biggest mistake was
hiring jQuery Ninjas to write the front-end. If investors could
comprehend the ramifications of such decisions, there'd be far less
major disasters out there.

 

[Garrett Smith]

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There was a space character (U+0020) there.
And there, though it, as well as the previous two characters which
remain, should have been removed by the responder.