241766 - Image with multipart/x-mixed-replace doesn't keep updating

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joseph Becher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040412 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040412 Firefox/0.8.0+

When viewing the above url the image does not update correctly. According to
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/howclock.html that is because it is not handling the
'multipart/x-mixed-replace' content type correctly.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/howclock.html or one of the clocks on
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html
2. Wait fot them to update.
3.

Actual Results:  
Somtimes they work, mostly they work for a brief time then quit, or don't update
at all.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM.  It updates for several seconds and then stops, just like in Netscape 4.

Comment 2

[Lino Mastrodomenico]

This is not a bug in Mozilla (or Firefox): if you try to wget a clock image, the
server sends images for a few seconds (separated by "--DELIMIT\n"), and then
sends a multipart end boundary ("--DELIMIT--\n") and closes the connection with
the client.

So the browsers are doing the right thing: they keep displaying new images as
long as the server sends them.

Comment 3

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

This bug was last touched before 1.0.4. Is it still reproducable?
Try the latest branch build (1.0.5): http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
Try the latest nightly trunk build (v1.0+): http://www.mozilla.org/developer
(Reviving old UNCONFs)

Comment 4

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060218 Firefox/1.6a1

WFM