I am having trouble with firefox tanking when talking to older servers.
As per http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/OldServers.html
If there is no response line, all bytes on the stream are to be treated as text/html.
Well my firefox appears to partially lock up on those responses. The section where the webpage would be displayed goes transparent and all I see is my desktop(or whatever is behind it).
Does anyone know of a patch or some sort of plugin that I can get to fix this bug?
18  1775 
Need an example cause I've never heard of this.
It seems to be related to the size of the response somehow.
"file is to large" is all that is returned for a certain request. No status code nor headers of any sort. It just returns that short string then closes the connection.
IE6 shows it just fine, which is funny because I know IE (or was it IIS5?) has issues with certain reponses being too small.
Firefox 2.0.0.6 seems to do that locking up thing. Maybe it's just waiting for a newline character or something? But the socket connection is closed, so I would think it would stop, I dunno.
Is this a site I can access?
Is this a site I can access?
I will PM you the link.
Be gentile with it, it's still waaaay in the developement stages
I don't know why it worked in IE, haven't looked myself, but you have an ampersand in the url and that's not allowed. Don't know if that's the hangup or not. Try with it removed, or change it to %26 and see if that works.
It doesn't work in IE7 either.
Ampersand in html (like links), not allowed, ampersand in direct url input is.
IE6 was what I had used.
I don't see why it would fail, unless they're cutting back on support for old protocols (which isn't out of the question)
it just seems wierd that if that string was like double the length it shows up just fine.
Don't know but TamperBug extension is showing no response from the server. Ican't ping it either.
Yeah, I'm dumb, I sent you the wrong link.
Don't know but TamperBug extension is showing no response from the server. Ican't ping it either.
Ok, I only get a 200 response with TamperData and a blank screen but IE7 only prints "file too large". I don't know if that's what you wanted.
At one time, don't know if it's still true, FF had a problem with too large files but I think that had to do with XML and it was fixed, don't recall.
Well see, I don't send the 200 ok message. I send JUST the "File is too large" (I could have it say 'stuff goes downhill' for all it matters)
If you move up a step in the directory hierarchy (from the link I PM'd you) you'll see a link to like "readme.txt", no headers of anysort are sent with that one either, but it's a few words longer and FF seems to display it just fine.
Did you try it without the ampersand? One of my test programs stops at that point.
Turned out to be the extension.
I tried it with a file called "somefile.txt" and "somefile.pdf"
The .txt went fine, the .pdf locked up. They were identical.
Instead of verifying the contenttype as pdf it seems to be just trying to load it, so it's probably the acrobat plugin that is dieing, but firefox shouldn't be invoking it to begin with.
Clients are not supposed to pass judgement based on url.
EDIT: Shame on them, they do it for everything. I tried with "somefile.bin" and it wanted me to download it. It shouldn't be doing that unless a) I have a content-disposition directive telling it to do so, or b) the ContentType is not one that is allowed to open directly in the browser window. (Since there in contenttype, http standards dictate treat as text/html or text/plain)
For shame.
I'm talking to one of the developers but it's not his area.
He thinks that when there is no content-type sent, Firefox asks the OS what it would do with that extension. If the OS knows, it attempts to open the file with the application the OS recommends. He believes this action is intentional because it has to do 'something' with the file but, again, it's not his area.
He searched and could not find any related 'bugs' or 'issues' related to this.
Here is the answer. What you linked to, above, is from 1992 and is out of date. The current HTTP1.1 published standard says this:
If and only if the media type is not given by a Content-Type field, the recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URI used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD treat it as type "application/octet-stream".
So, as usual, Firefox is performing correctly and to the standard and your shaming of it should actually be a shame on IE for not performing correctly, as usual.
"may" attempt does not mean it has to.
HTTP/1.1 standards also dictate to support HTTP/1.0. (I had linked to the http/1.0 standards...or at least I had ment to)
Regardless of following standards or not, it's still locking up when it clearly shouldn't be. Perhaps a bug in the acrobat plugin though.
As the Firefox developers told me to ask you, what do you expect it to do with it then? The alternative is to do nothing. Firefox is performing correctly and to the letter of the standard. IE is not. In any case, you are supposed to provide content type.
Firefox is not locking up for me but I don't have Acrobat on this machine.
More info. The link you showed in your first post is archived under "Old Documents" which have: "Archive document status are useful but dated documents with no guarantee that they are up to date. "
HTTP/1.1 standards also dictate to support HTTP/1.0.
It says the same in http1.0
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