160667 - The page is rendered as garbage. [Accept-encoding: Deflate offered but not supported]

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 105292

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[Kedar P Bhise]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

The page http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/default shows up correctly
in IE 6. In Mozilla 1.1b, the page shows up as a string of garbage characters.
An exaample:
ä=kwÚÈ’ŸwΙÿÐË}xæ¬ z ŽÍ=ãÄs�íd²³{vs©�Žõ`ô°ÃìîñOݪ–

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste the URL in the address bar.
2. Press enter.
3. You should get the garbage

Actual Results:  The page is rendered as:

ä=kwÚÈ’ŸwΙÿÐË}xæ¬ z ŽÍ=ãÄs�íd²³{vs©�Žõ`ô°ÃìîñOݪ–

Expected Results:  Rendered the page correctly.

I am using the Lobpuri Flat theme

Comment 1

[jhacker]

Tried to reproduce with 1.0 and 1.1b nightly. Both of them only show
this behaviour when using a squid proxy. Reporter: are you also
using a proxy?
Maybe squid doesnt pass through the headers containing gzip-information?
Just my...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

he site sends us "Content-Encoding:Deflate", which I thought we explicitly did
not support?

Comment 3

[jhacker]

I have to revoke my comment regarding proxies and the WFMs...
But it obviously depends on the encoding...

But when "Content-Encoding:Deflate" is not supported,
why does my nightly send these headers?:
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 105292 ***

Comment 5

[benc]

->http

Comment 6

[Wesha]

vrfy dupe