199265 - Mozilla 1.3 unusable after 302-redirects between http and https pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[till kahle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When surfing the page http://www.poolit.de, Mozilla 1.3
sometimes crashes or can't follow redirects within the
site.

When being redirected from an http to a https url within the
same site, the 302 error page and all HTTP headers, with
a strange leading "0 ", are displayed. A screenshot is available here:
http://www.weikatec.com/temp/bugzilla20030325.gif

Sometimes the same clicks result in an error popping up:
"The plugin performed an illegal operation. You are strongly
advised to restart Navigator". ("Navigator" is hardcoded in this msg,
I'm sure I'm using Mozilla!) There is no Plugin used in the
page except normal html rendering, there is no Java or
Flash or whatever other content.
The browser is unusable after this error. Talkback does not pop up 
here, so I can't provide any talkback data. Screenshot:
http://www.weikatec.com/temp/bugzilla20030325b.gif

A tcpdump of the HTTP protocol doesn't show anything strange.

To reproduce the behaviour, open http://www.poolit.de
and switch 1-3 times between the tabs "Tausch", "Mitgliedschaft"
and "DVD-Pool".

The site works well in Mozilla 1.2.1 (and MSIE), so I suspect
it's a new bug in 1.3.

I'm using Mozilla 1.3 on Windows 2000,
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
installed using a binary downloaded from mozilla.org.

The bug is NOT reproducible on Linux using the version:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.poolit.de
2. switch 1-3 times between the tabs "Tausch", "Mitgliedschaft", and "DVD-Pool"

Actual Results:  
Either an error message http://www.weikatec.com/temp/bugzilla20030325b.gif
or a 302 redirect page displayed with all headers, but the redirect not followed:
http://www.weikatec.com/temp/bugzilla20030325.gif


Expected Results:  
Like Mozilla 1.2.1 and Mozilla 1.3 on Linux, the site should work without error
messages and browser crashes.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

-> Networking: HTTP

Comment 2

[u63580]

Not seeing this in 1.4a (build 2003032404)

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Do you use a proxy ?
Have you enabled Http Pipelining in the prefs ? (if yes: does it work without +
a cache clear) 

Comment 4

[Marius Strumyla]

i've seen this bug on my intranet. if you turn Pipelining off, the problem goes
away.

i'm using apache web server with mod ssl. every secure page forces a redirect to
itself with https://... so that they cannot be accessed through http://

you request a page:
GET /Apps/WebObjects/assessment.woa/14/wo/MHGvfmm2Whqh9hOpv6crmM/0.1.2 HTTP/1.0

web browser responds:
HTTP/1.1 302 Apple
<skipped>
location:
https://172.28.1.40/Apps/WebObjects/assessment.woa/14/wo/MHGvfmm2Whqh9hOpv6crmM/1.
<skipped>

using mozilla1.3 release on win2k

Comment 5

[Marius Strumyla]

Attachment: secure page with Pipelining enabled and empty cache

Comment 6

[Marius Strumyla]

Attachment: normal page

attached are two images of the same page. the first is the result of of the
bug. the second one is how it looks with Pipelining disabled.

Comment 7

[Darin Fisher]

matti: yeah, probably a dupe of bug 195746.

Comment 8

[till kahle]

Hi, it's the poster again...

I'm not using pipelining, this bug is not related to pipelining at all.
I'm not using a proxy either.

Comment 9

[till kahle]

I've tried the same website on Mozilla 1.4. 
Version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030326

The bahaviour is almost the same:
- The error "Illegal operation" still pops up
- Sometimes a click from the https page to an http page results
  in Mozilla claiming the page is application/octet-stream 
  (which it is not, it's text/html).

So the bug is not fixed in 1.4 yet.

Comment 10

[Marius Strumyla]

http://www.poolit.de has been working ok for me with both mozilla1.3 release and
 1.4a 20030327 build.

mine problems (Comment #4) were solved by moving to 1.4 20030327 build.

till, with mozilla1.4 build, do you still see HTTP headers dumped into html page?
like in http://www.weikatec.com/temp/bugzilla20030325.gif

Comment 11

[till kahle]

Good question! I've tried a couple of times: the error
seems to be reduced to the "illegal operation" issue
in Mozilla 1.4a.
I have reproduced this in 100% of my tests:
- Open http://www.poolit.de
- Click "Mitgliedschaft"
- Click "Tausch"
-> Illegal operation.

Comment 12

[simon annear]

Hi all

It appears the URL is no longer available to test.  Is anyone able to confirm
that this problem still exists on a recent version of Mozilla - If so, can you
please upload an updated test case

Thanks

Comment 13

[u63580]

No testcase, and site is not accessible.  WFM?

Comment 14

[till kahle]

Sorry,

the site poolit.de has been taken down more than a year ago,
and I don't have another site at hand with the same
problem.

Till.