301525 - Costco.com site does not work with pipelining enabled.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Alexey N. Solofnenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0+

pages do not stop loading; pictures can be partially loaded; sometimes
navigation stops working as if Firefox is waiting for something before going to
another page (even back may not work)

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enabled pipelining
2. go to the url
3. click around travalling

Comment 1

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

As pointed out at [1], pipelining is ill-supported by many web servers.  I would
be willing to bet that's the case here.  Without further information on the
specific implementation of HTTP server Costco is using, further diagnosis is
difficult or impossible.  Marking this as INVALID.


[1] http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/tips#oth_pipelining

Comment 2

[Aaron Slunt]

Bug reports like these belong in tech evangelism.

Comment 3

[Jason Spiro]

Here are the headers. 

Would someone with bugzilla permissions please assign back to Gabriel Sjoberg in case he can now diagnose the problem? :-)

% telnet www.costco.com 80                                                                      
Trying 170.167.8.1...
Connected to www.costco.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /Home.aspx HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:17:21 GMT
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
Location: http://www.costco.com/Home.aspx
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 148
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.1

Connection closed by foreign host.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

happens with FF Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060612 Minefield/3.0a1

does NOT happen with SM 
* branch - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 SeaMonkey/1.0.2
* trunk - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060610 SeaMonkey/1.5a

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM FF trunk Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070104 Minefield/3.0a2pre 

Note: original URL** is no longer a valid product, so I tried against a valid product
**http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?Prodid=11069104&whse=BC&topnav=&cat=4244&hierPath=1133*4244*