Problem with Netscape, but not Explorer

[pablogosse]

Wow. There's a surprise. A problem that happens in Netscape and not IE. Funny. At any rate, here's the situation:

The url is http://waddington.unbc.ca/index.php

The links are coded thusly:

<a href="?page=economics">Economics</a>
<a href="?page=politicalscience">Political Science</a>

Now in Explorer, the links work fine, and when I right-click and copy the link location, I get
http://waddington.unbc.ca/index.php?page=economics
but when I do the same in Netscape it's
http://waddington.unbc.ca/?page=economics

which is causing me undue headaches.

Now, my first thought would be that it might have something to do with the order of the DirectoryIndex in Apache's httpd.conf file, which is presently set to the following:

index.html index.php index.htm

but I'm just guessing there. Does anyone have any ideas?

The reason I ask is that the site is driven on a template, and unless the link pointed to is index.php?vars=vals and not ?vars=vals it won't work in Netscape 4x.

Thanks in advance,
Pablo

[MrAlaska]

If the links are not displaying the same in different browsers it pretty much rules out server side issues.

In this case it appears to me to be a non-issue. What is the problem? I just tried it and NS4.7 works the same on your page as IE5.5. Even though it does not echo back index.php it still goes there (or tries to, anyway)

If you want to explicitly send people to to index.php why do you not specify it in your code like you did on the sidebar?

I guess I do not understand...