Closed Bug 376739 Opened 17 years ago Closed 11 years ago

ebay.co.uk - Firefox displays unparsed HTML when clicking a link in "My eBay" at eBay UK

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: markthedaemon, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [HTML served as text/plain]) 

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Firefox appears to display unparsed HTML when clicking an item in "My eBay" on the eBay network. It displays the page as what would seem unparsed, as opposed to rending the HTML and redirecting to the eBay item in question.

If you do need more information (such as hardware configuration and software setup) you are welcome to contact me.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to My eBay at http://www.ebay.co.uk
2. Click on any item in My eBay (such as bidding, watching, selling)
3. See the page of text that follows
Actual Results:  
A page of "text" appears, although it is unparsed HTML, I have provided the text below:

"<html><header>
<meta http-equiv='refresh' content='1; URL=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=015&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&viewitem=&item=250100609868&rd=1&rd=1'></header>
<script language='Javascript1.1'>
<!-- begin script
location.replace('http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=015&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&viewitem=&item=250100609868&rd=1&rd=1');
// end script -->
</script>
<NOSCRIPT>Please click <a href='http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=015&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&viewitem=&item=250100609868&rd=1&rd=1'> here</a> to view the item.<p></NOSCRIPT>
</html>"


Expected Results:  
Firefox should redirect to the correct page, as that is what the HTML redirect code is saying.
Are they serving the page as text/plain instead of text/html? You can check under Tools > Page Info > "Type:" field.
Does it work in IE?
IIRC, I saw a similar report a while back that turned out to be
virus protection software that caused the problem...
Yes, it works when browsing with IE.

The page is served as text/plain.
This seems to work for me. But if some of eBay's servers are delivering as text/plain then its an issue that eBay would have to fix.
Yeah, this is almost definitely on eBay's end. You should report the problem to them. Assuming you can still reproduce this problem with a new profile (to ensure that it's not on your end, which is doubtful), this bug is probably INVALID.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
(In reply to comment #3)
> Yes, it works when browsing with IE.
> 
> The page is served as text/plain.

If the page is served as text/plain then it should be rendered as plain text.
If IE displays it as HTML then the bug is in IE.

-> Evangelism
Assignee: nobody → english-other
URL: http://www.ebay.co.uk
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: General → English Other
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: general → english-other
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Firefox displays unparsed HTML when clicking a link in "My eBay" at eBay UK → ebay.co.uk - Firefox displays unparsed HTML when clicking a link in "My eBay" at eBay UK
Whiteboard: [HTML served as text/plain]
Blocks: 386685
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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