102871 - truncation of large pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[przemek klosowski]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010917
BuildID:    2001091712

looking at www.ncnr.nist.gov/staff/przemek/WEBMC12.HTM in both
mozilla and galeon. This is a very simple but rather large page (460kB). There
are two problems:
  - once it starts loading you can't stop loading
  - even though the page is transferred properly, confirmed by      . 
....viewing source the page doesn't display: it truncates after 
....~ 65%  of the file (the file records run from Oct 2001 to Sep ....2002, and
the HTML displays only till May 2002)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.load www.ncnr.nist.gov/staff/przemek/WEBMC12.HTM 
2.go to end of page, confirm that the last item has May 2002 date
3.view source, confirm that the source has a complete file.

checked with mozilla and galeon; checked that netscape 4.7x doesn't
have the problem. checked previous versions (I believe I had
galeon 0.12 and I am not sure which mozilla; now of course it's
mozilla 0.9.4 and galeon 0.12.2) didn't check other platforms.

Comment 1

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

WFM on fresh Linux CVS, although the page is quite slow to load.  I notice a
bunch of unescaped <webcal> tags thrown into the <pre>, which we are (I assume
due to quirks mode) treating as markup; I wonder if we're filling up the open
tag stack with this.  Maybe evangelism?  (I haven't seen webcal in any standard.)

Comment 2

[S. Malling]

can't confirm on Windows ME, Moz-build 2001100903 on 256 kb/s

Comment 3

[przemek klosowski]

<webcal> is probably a vestige of the database program that
generates this page; it probably doesn't have anything to do
with HTML.

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

With the Nov 3 rd build, I can't reproduce the problem as described. The date at
the bottom of page shows 9/30/2002 not May 2002. The HTML page source window
also shows this same information. Marking WFM.