241065 - www.sportsnet.ca seems to be stuck trying to detect something

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

Go to http://www.sportsnet.ca .
Loads fine in Mozilla 1.6
Loads fine in Firefox 0.8 (which uses Moz 1.6)
Loads fine in Netscape 7.1

Now try it in Mozilla 1.7x (beta or the latest nightly)
Cache and History are cleared.
ac.rnm.ca and sportsnet.ca are set to "can set cookies".
Tried it in a fresh profile, and still no go.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:






Latest build I tried it with is:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040419

I don't know what the source of the problem is; so I don't know if this is a
problem with the website or Mozilla. For now, I'm filing it as a tech evangelism
bug.

Comment 1

[Patrick]

IE also gets stuck for quite a bit, but that may be me [running XP Pro with
Service Pack 2 RC installed, which breaks quite a bit of the browser's
smoothness :o]

Seeing the same problem with a clean profile and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040419

The page lists "download real player", "internet explorer 5+", download flash 6+"
Can't find obvious dupes, but i can't see what's happening when the page is
stuck in the DETECTING phase.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

They are sending a content-location header with an ip-adress which is not
reachable afaik: Content-Location: http://172.18.11.11/homepage/splash.jsp

I think this line of html code has something to do with it:
<EMBED
src="/flash/regionchooser.swf?loc=http://www.sportsnet.ca/detectionpages/platformDetect.html&flhost=172.18.4.35:4022"

I can't get that content-location header with that direct url in the embed tag.

Server-response, which seems to cause the long wait:
HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:53:48 GMT
Server: Orion/1.5.2
Content-Location: http://172.18.11.11/homepage/splash.jsp
Set-Cookie: SportsnetUserType=1; Expires=Thu, 06-May-04 09:53:48 GMT; Path=/
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
X-Cache: MISS from www.sportsnet.ca
Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Afterwards, all the image seems to have an url that starts with:
http://172.18.11.11/

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

In this forum they mention that it works in earlier versions of Firefox:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=63200

Here is an rfc about content-location:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.14

Maybe it is useful.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 241402 

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I've backed out content-location support.

Comment 6

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Verified on Win32 zip of 1.7_20040504.